Story Quotes
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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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 don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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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 don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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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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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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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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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
