Stories Quotes
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
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VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.
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X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
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A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
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If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.
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There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.
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The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
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My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.
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Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story
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As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
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I think tone gives birth to the story.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.
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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.
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As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.
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I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
