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“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!
When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change
What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.
Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.
I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.
In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.
I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.
I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.
You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.
VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.