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The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.
You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.
Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.
Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.
I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.
But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.
Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.