- Great Story
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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
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with Nawaz on-screen after watching 'Gangs of Wasseypur.' So my love story starts with him from there. I was quite nervous to act alongside him. He is an excellent actor.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned into sensible adults.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020