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I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.
I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.
I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.
Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.
I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.
My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.