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Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an # education .
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
Every New York Times story [about Donald Trump] is the result of the organizational efforts of Barack Obama.
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.