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A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.
I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.
It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.
The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.
Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.
When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?
I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.