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They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.
Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.
Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.
Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.
A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
I didn't have any idea that Gwen Stefani would evolve into this symbol of womanhood in America, but to me, that's not a musical story: it's a fashion story.
The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.
The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.
I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.
I'd love Shakey Bill to tell me a story - I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn't he?
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'
I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.
It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him.
We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.
In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.
After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.
Ibn Said's autobiography is an extraordinary work, and his story is one that's absolutely crucial to tell.
What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
The mini-series 'The Bronx is Burning' thoroughly embarrassed me the way the story was told.
When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.
Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.
I've DP'd so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story.
The way I'm used to telling a story is by looking through the viewfinder and being really close to the actors.
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.'
The truth is that 'Twilight' is not a story about Bella and Jacob. It's a story about Bella and Edward. That was the story this writer wanted to tell.
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that’s a story I don’t want to be a part of. Otherwise there is no other character that I don’t want to play.
We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.
I was the first Indian to be featured in the London edition of 'GQ' magazine and it was a six page story.
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
I was disappointed with 'My Friend Pinto.' Everyone put a lot of effort into it but the final product was something no one was ready for. The story was altered and a lot of scenes were edited. I got a lot of flak for my performance.
When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.
I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.
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