Story Quotes
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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I see myself as a story teller.
