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Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
...many organizations don't realize that they have a much better option-they can tell their story directly to an interested market.
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."
Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.
On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.
Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.
When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.
Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.
[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
It resonates with me the way women tell stories, the way they see things, and the way they attach what they see to certain emotions.
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?