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Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'
I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.
I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.
I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.
I got so into moisturizing, my skin started overproducing oil. That's my story. There's a lot to talk about, for sure.
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)
I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.
I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.
Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Ralph Lauren is about creating stories, creating concepts that consumers want to live in. We are about creating dreams.
Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
I just take credit for being smart enough to find a guy as smart as Benett [Miller] to tell the story [of "Moneyball"].
I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.
Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.