Story Quotes
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In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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Yes... no one knows how the story will end. Perhaps a miracle will occur. So right here and now, laugh with others as much as you can.
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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
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I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.
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And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
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The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
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She just wanted to story heard.
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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
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A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.
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Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
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Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
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As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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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.
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The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
