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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
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!
- Detective Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a story teller.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I’m happy that life isn’t like that. I’m glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
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- Nov 07, 2020