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I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.
I thought my story was over. But that was when I realised I finally had a story to tell - and it seems to remind people of their own story.
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn't appear to be appropriate for African-American women.
I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story.
Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
When WCW first really began to enjoy the success that we enjoyed, it was because of the story lines that we were putting out in front of people.
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.
For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.
There is an often-told story that Silicon Valley is filled with women looking to cash in by marrying wealthy tech moguls. Whether there really is a significant number of such women is debatable.
If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.
When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We're telling the story of 'Daredevil.' In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience.
Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So when it comes to 'Elektra', they didn't follow one of her specific story lines, you know. They really tried to capture what comes through the comics, but there's not one specific storyline.
We're telling the story of 'Daredevil'. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience.
There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.
The film's star, Eminem, doesn't appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful '8 Mile' is a raw version of the rapper's own story.
I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.
If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'
I'm taken by a story and a character. I'll read a script, and if it touches me and moves me and makes waves, that's why I'll choose it.
I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
Everyone has something that scares them. Everyone must make a choice at some point whether to be brave. Everyone has a story.
I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.
So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story as fast as we can.
In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
That's what happens in feature docs. The more time you spend, the more nuance emerges, the more a story evolves - but it's different than fiction, where you can reshoot something.
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
I'm just a simple television and film producer who started off from her garage and whose only idea was to tell a story.
We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback - that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film.
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
I was stabbed when I was 17. It was touch and go, and my lung collapsed, and I was in hospital for five days. It is part of my back story.
This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.
It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
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