Stories Quotes - Page 30

• It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

  Harvey Keitel

  People, Actors, Pleasure

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• Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

  Harvey Keitel

  Effort, Done, Film

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• There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

  John Sayles

  Couple, People, Twenties

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• Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.

  Mary Hart

  People, Interesting, Survivor

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• There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

  Mary Hart

  Running, Has Beens

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• I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

  Sam Mendes

  Challenges, Way, Canvas

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  Uwe Boll

  Revenge, Alive, Execution

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• It's the story that counts.

  Vincente Minnelli

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

  Vincente Minnelli

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  Yahoo Serious

  World, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

  Howie Mandel

  Children, Childhood, Down And

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• Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

  Anthony Holden

  Views, Cities, Dying

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• Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

  David Guterson

  Hero, Journey, Men

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• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Character, Literature

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• I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

  Diane Sawyer

  Asking Questions, Literature, Matter

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• Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.

  Charlie Brooker

  Children, School, Fairy Stories

  "When it comes to psychics, my stance is hardcore: they must die alone in windowless cells" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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• My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

  Kate Adie

  Jobs, Heart, People

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• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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• Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

  Leslie Charteris

  Jobs, Thinking, Done

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• The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Biblical, Order, Years

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• The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Men, Atheism

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• Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.

  Bryan Murray

  Hockey, Nhl, Use

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• You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, People

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• The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

  Omar Khayyam

  Sleep, Rose, Atheism

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.186, University of Virginia Press

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