Stories Quotes - Page 35

• I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Decided

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

  Lily Allen

  Night, People, Three

  "Phillips Blasts Allen's Cocaine Remarks". www.digitalspy.com. January 10, 2009.

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• The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

  Adam Langer

  What Matters, Spelling, Overrated

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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• The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

  Bob Barr

  Clouds, Government, Office

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• We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

  Aaron Shepard

  Knows

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• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  Dean Karnazes

  Book, Adventure, Air

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• White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

  Daniel Mason

  Ivory, White, Pieces

  Daniel Mason (2003). “The Piano Tuner: A Novel”, p.44, Vintage

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• You don't have to live anybody else's story.

  Stephen Curry

  Mvp, Inspirational Basketball, Famous Basketball

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• I love writing family stories.

  Larry Wilmore

  Writing

  "‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore: ‘Has race been in the news lately?’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2015.

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• I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Trying, Comedy, Happened

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

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• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  Madchen Amick

  Opportunity, Doors, Vampire

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

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• Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.

  Alaina Huffman

  Mom, Character, Opportunity

  "Tony Lee and Alaina Huffman Talk the Newest MTV Comic 'Agent Mom'". Interview with Valerie Gallaher, www.mtv.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something. And even though my parents taught me stuff about God and read Bible stories to me from as early as I can remember... it was my choice to become a believer in Him. The way I see it, putting our faith in God is something that each person has to come to on his or her own. It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Believe, Unique, Thinking

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• I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

  Raymond Carver

  Done

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• If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

  Dean Koontz

  Fall, Writing, Yelling

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• Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Struggle, Doctors, Ideas

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• In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.

  Misty Upham

  Hero, Native American, Warrior

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• When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

  Alexander Gould

  Character, Development, Able

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• The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

  Caity Lotz

  Book, Reality, People

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

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• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  Rich Sommer

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  Barkhad Abdi

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

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• I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.

  Shelley Hennig

  Fun, Light, Age

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• My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

  Shelley Hennig

  And Love, Love Story, My Favorite

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• Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  Kandyse McClure

  Superhero, Actors, World

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• The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Scripts, Scene, Shoguns

  "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

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