- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Story Quotes
Every story is worth telling well.
One line here is about recognizing a story too rarely told, another about a lasting preference for tales of the underdog and survival. For similar reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a simple television and film producer who started off from her garage and whose only idea was to tell a story.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback - that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
- Duality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020