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You have to be a really talented writer if you’re trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don’t have the focus to do that, really.
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE

Focus News Song Stories
If you don’t have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it’s like getting in a car and not having any gas.
GUS VAN SANT

Car Stories Unfolding
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I’m trying to do. I’m frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
BARRY LOPEZ

Stories Trying Typewriters
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Hollywood Levels Stories
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
BERNARD MALAMUD

People Stories Style
Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won’t cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn’t ask. And sometimes that’s perceived as bias by people who’ve grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.
MEGYN KELLY

Outlet People Sometimes Stories World
I’m not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I’m fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I’m actually quite shy and reserved.
BILL BRYSON

Keyboards Shy Stories
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Clean Shows Stories
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.
RACHEL MCADAMS

Stories Trying Want
I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA

Dresses Husband Stories
I don’t do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.
AAMIR KHAN

Actor Failure Film Kind Learn Result Stories Success Unsuccessful
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
JOHN IRVING

Fun Hurt Mean Stories
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it’s a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
BEAU BRIDGES

Character Roles Stories
We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods.
ADRIANA LIMA

Both Childhood Girl Lot Picture Stories
There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
BONNIE RAITT

People Stories Told
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
BRANDON MULL

Book Mind Stories
I’m the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn’t make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it.
ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO

Country Filmmaker Outside Screen Shoot Stories
Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what’s important for me.
ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO

Filmmaker France Important Stories
What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
BETTY SMITH

Between Grown Kept Stories Writing
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.
BUSY PHILIPPS

Moving Purpose Stories
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Giving People Stories
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
BEN OKRI

Ocean People Stories
Early on, a story’s meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it – and so things have to be ramped up.
GEORGE SAUNDERS

Mean Stories Writing
I’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Actors Roles Stories
You’re following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick – however roughly – to the path.
GUS VAN SANT

Fun Stories Track
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Character Stories

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