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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this.
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.
The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.
Showing myself nude from behind doesn't pose any problems, but from the front that's another story. I don't want to lose all my fans!
I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?
It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by.
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.