Top 1200 Good Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.

The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.