Story Quotes
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
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You are part of my story, memory and scenery, thank you.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
