Top 1200 Short Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

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

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

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

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

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

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

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

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.

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.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

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

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

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

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.

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

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

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays and short films. I was obsessed with reading 'Entertainment Weekly' and 'Premiere' and 'Movieline' and all those magazines.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

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

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

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

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.

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

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

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

They always compare my 'Crazy Story' to Meek's 'Tony Story.'

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

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.

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

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

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

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

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

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

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