Story Quotes
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Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
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I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.
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A scene isn't a random stretch of action. It arises for a reason, and it's going somewhere. It has meaning. It has a point: at least one thing that needs to be shown or established at that spot in a story.
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People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
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With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.
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At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
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My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.
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I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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The best story is the story that gets to the most people.
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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.
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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
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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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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.
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I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.
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You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.
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Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
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The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.
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Any story that I write or tell is rooted in personal truths in some fashion or another, so they’re all very personal to me.
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If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
