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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.
No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.
I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.
My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.
When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.
Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.
Everyone hears stories about what it means to be a Liverpool player, but, until you live it personally, you cannot really understand it.
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’
I read a lot of summaries about the story [ based on the Cyrano de Bergerac. ]. I also watched Roxanne, the movie starring Steve Martin.
To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.
I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
Winnie the Pooh was such a part of my childhood. My kindergarten was named Pooh Corner, after one of A.A. Milne's collections of stories.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.