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But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something you'd put on a random shuffle.
- Pegi Young
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It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.
- Rebekah Brooks
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
- Dan Scanlon
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I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.
- Boy George
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We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan for us to follow. But when it came to each scene, we and the gagmen would work out ideas.
- Stan Laurel
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I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right.
- Louise Woodward
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'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.
- Emily V. Gordon
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
- Aaron Stanford
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
- Aaron Stanford
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
- Aaron Stanford
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
- Bret Easton Ellis
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All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
- Dick Schaap
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There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.
- Dawn Richard
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
- Salman Rushdie
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Everyone has an 'I thought Elliott was crazy' story.
- Elliott Bisnow
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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
- George R. R. Martin
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People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.
- Kyle
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I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
- Maggie Shayne
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I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.
- Jason Isaacs
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When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.
- S.E. Cupp
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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
- Ai Weiwei
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A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
- Eli Roth
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I go wherever the good story is.
- Julia Garner
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
- Ira Glass
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I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.
- Josephine Langford
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There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
- Francis Spufford
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I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
- Ted Demme
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At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.
- Daniel Berehulak
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You look at Taylor Swift, and every 'i' is dotted, every story is finished.
- Phoebe Bridgers
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I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.
- Sean Baker
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
- Al Yankovic
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Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.
- Michael A. Stackpole
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I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.
- Faith Ringgold
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
- Lana Parrilla
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
- Hannah Murray
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It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.
- Tanya Fischer
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The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.
- Tobias Menzies
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That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.
- Jesmyn Ward
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Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and over again. Also, 'Willow' and 'The Goonies.'
- Jesmyn Ward
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Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash.
- Triple H
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
- Ted Naifeh
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When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
- Emil Ferris
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
- William Friedkin
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In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
- A. E. van Vogt
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
- A. E. van Vogt
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You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.
- Margot Lee Shetterly
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
- Walter Murch
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I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.
- Colum McCann
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When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
- Peggy Rathmann
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
- Vicky McClure
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Ultimately, 'Cinderella' is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it.
- Lily James
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It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.
- Slick Rick
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Everybody has their own story or they've been shaped by their upbringing, and we have to love them for what that experience created.
- Dave McCary
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
- Cotton Mather
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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
- James Randi
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
- Otto Penzler
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President Clinton is one of the dominant figures on the global stage. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.
- Sonny Mehta
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
- Aarti Sequeira
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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
- Ben Katchor
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There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.
- Box Brown
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I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
- Chester Brown
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The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.
- Dwyane Wade
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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
- Paul Ricoeur
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The term 'psychological thriller' is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.
- Susie Dent
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Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.
- Isaac Hempstead Wright
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
- Tom Hanks
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
- David A. Adler
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I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.
- David A. Adler
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
- David A. Adler
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Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by being cast in 'West Side Story' by this transformationally beautiful teacher named Barbara Patterson.
- Jeff Perry
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Everyone thinks they're the hero in their own story.
- Joe Keery
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I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
- Regina Spektor
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I want to tell Miranda's story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can live in a longer format.
- Colleen Ballinger
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I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
- Cristela Alonzo
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There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
- Damon Knight
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
- Harry Dean Stanton
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
- Anne Perry
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
- Rachel Hurd-Wood
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I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story.
- Alex Pettyfer
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There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
- Edward Zwick
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I just want people to hear me and my story.
- Juicy J
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If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.
- Ludwig Goransson
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I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story.
- Natti Natasha
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I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story.
- Tim Story
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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
- James Franco
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Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.
- Amy Bloom
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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
- Amy Bloom
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At the end of the day, you have a side of the story that needs to be heard, too.
- Rico Nasty
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I was at Elon University in North Carolina for two years pursuing my BFA. And after my sophomore year, I was cast in the Broadway Tour of 'West Side Story.' I just kind of - it always was my favorite show growing up.
- Grant Gustin
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Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
- Christopher Shays
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For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
- Rebecca Skloot
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
- Sidney Poitier
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I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.
- Jan de Bont
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My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.
- Ravi Subramanian
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I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
- Lauren Myracle
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