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I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story. Chris Ofili
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Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things. Chris Pine
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One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such. Chris Roberson
Me Seventies Characters One Of The Things About Most Toys Without Were Sixties Stories Fascinates Things
Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird. Chris Roberson
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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing. Chris Roberson
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I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. Chris Van Allsburg
Kind About Boy Heard Hubris Authors Dutch Stories Midwest Filled
This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has. Chris Wedge
Technology Result Will Become Way Tell One Thing More Computer Obviously Knows Revolutionize Movie Stories Much Certain Who Film Thing
We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told. Chris Wooding
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work. Chris Zylka
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I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me. Chrissie Hynde
Me Those Insider No-One Outsider Feel Like Know Felt Always Understood Did Just Where Stories
In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore. Christian Bale
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I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. Christiane Amanpour
People Thought Unacceptable Run Morally Risked Always Get Stories Lives
Women's stories are valid, and they need to be developed in a way that appeals to a broader audience. And what is 'women's television' other than TV that women would enjoy watching? Christina Cox
Women Enjoy Other Valid Way Broader Television TV Would Developed Audience Than Stories Appeals Watching Need
As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct. Christina Ricci
Hope Will Long Our Tell Ability About More Survive Stories To Survive
One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray. Christopher Atkins
First Favorite Kissing Scene Linda Stories Gray
Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work on some comic stories, and after a while, I developed an idea for a weird little superhero spoof comic called 'Cement Shooz.' Christopher McCulloch
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We just try to find stories that are interesting to us. Christopher Miller
Try Find Just Stories Interesting Us
There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are. Christopher Miller
Relationship Every Some Movie Stories Central
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket. Christopher Moore
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I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for. Christopher Paolini
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story. Chuck Klosterman
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Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' Chuck Palahniuk
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I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday. Cindy Morgan
Time Character Amazing First First Time Got Judy Dumb Blonde Did Stories Who Play Actually
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy. Claire Danes
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For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered. Claire Denis
Rights People Mind Society Some Hospitality Main Make Always Been Motive Stories Interested Deprived Reason Who Keep Film
In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety. Claire Messud
Experience World Reading Entirety Could Shared Contained Making Making Up Up Stories Which Create
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