Story Quotes
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Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
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The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
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Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.
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When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
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Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.
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Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away. She had, in effect, turned the hose on herself. "Of course I forgive you." As eager to reconcile as she has been in the schoolyard and in her first marriage too. Only to think that now she should not have been so hasty. Forgiveness was the premature end to the story. She had skipped to the last page instead of reading the book through.
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One of my complaints is that you've got far more scientists than ever before but the pace of discovery has not increased. Why? Because they're all busy just filling in the details of what they think is the standard story.
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When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
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If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.
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We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?
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There is no back label with a story on a beer can.
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Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it...
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I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
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A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
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There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.
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Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.
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He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
