Story Quotes
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I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.
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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.
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Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.
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When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.
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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?
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"Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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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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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called "softskins" whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship Soren had hired to go north to find Rose, must have spread the story, because for many years afterward, there were tales of a race of trolls living on top of the world. Only Rose and her white bear know the whole truth of it.
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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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I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Improvise. Write your own damn story.
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Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
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If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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Yes,but the news is no different from the drunk in the corner bar:he might have a good story, but that doesn't maen you can trust it.
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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?
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
