Stories Quotes
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All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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Not all stories are meant for the big screen.
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
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It love about acting is all about role playing – the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.
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Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
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He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
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I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
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If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
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One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.
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I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.
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I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
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I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
