Story Quotes
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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
Nick Denton -
The supporting characters typically carry less story/plot weight - so you can be more broad and pushed with them. Supporting characters also take up less of the film's screen time. A short is a great opportunity for supporting characters to shine.
Nathan Greno
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin -
I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
Josh Segarra -
I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.
Swara Bhaskar -
But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
Bob Gaudio -
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
Julia Bacha -
One of the general morals of this story is that if you have to take some risks, it is often better to do so as quickly as possible.
Avinash Dixit
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Beyond telling a story, they are sensations that I sought to capture in the form of a song.
Silvana Estrada -
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 -
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
Steven Price -
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
Tom Hanks -
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
Hannah Arendt
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I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don't think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.
Harshvardhan Rane -
Rooted in the word history is story. And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs -
In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or for a different reason calls for a different version of the story. Stories are molded to the time and circumstance in which they are told.
Bart Ehrman -
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
William Faulkner -
It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?
Jennine Capó Crucet -
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.
Edna Buchanan -
'ABCD...' was a dance movie, but it had an emotional story, and now 'ABCD 2' is a very emotional film, too.
Remo D'Souza -
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen -
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
Binnie Kirshenbaum