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Everybody's got their own story. I'm just trying to add to mine. It's cool to be an inspiration to others.
No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.
I want to help people to get to know my story and really tell them in detail what I've been through.
For every Tesla or Uber, there's a Valeant Pharmaceuticals or Theranos - two story stocks that seduced an astounding array of prominent investors and supporters based on stories that did turn out to be too good to be true.
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
I'm really not opposed to playing anything as long as it's a story that I want to tell.
'Sairat' is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.
One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
You want to get both sides of the story and it's my role to try and bring that out of people.
I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.
I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action.
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.
The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' is a huge hit, but as far as the story of the film goes, there wasn't much to it.
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.
When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.
Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is.
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
'The Night Watch' is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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.
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was out of office, he would do things to draw attention. But when you are president, you don't need to shout. When you are in office, you are the story.
I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
It's so unbelievable that in 2017, almost every single woman has a story about sexual harassment.
It's really fun to get into that process of creating an album and telling a story. I really love it.
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