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The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.
The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.
My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.
I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.
It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.
I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.
I'm committed to jumping into roles, worlds, and stories that historically actors who look like me have been left out of.
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.
I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.