Story Quotes
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The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.
Brian Swimme
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Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
Nichiren
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I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.
Scarlett Johansson
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I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
Melissa Pritchard
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Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
Siegfried Lenz
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One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
Alex Gansa
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, and hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is 42.
Harrison Ford
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Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!
Nathan Greno
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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
Simon Toyne
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Isn't any friendship a love story?
Paul Michael Glaser
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To me, a great story well told is a great story well told, and just because the protagonist is a young adult doesn't mean that story has less merit or worth than if the protagonist is a full-grown adult.
Nina Jacobson
