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Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.
This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.
I like to make money, I like to have nice things. But I love to act, I love to tell stories.
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.
Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.
Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.
I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.