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As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said, 'I didn't sleep for a week after that!'
Claire Messud
Me
Remember
Made
Meeting
Kid
Tell
Mars
About
Week
Had
Remembered
Looked
She
Talking
Said
Were
Friend
Up
Going
Childhood
Stories
After
Story
Used
Sleep
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.
Claire Messud
Own
Living
Everybody
Our
Way
About
Take
True
Sort
Narratives
Always
Just
Just As Much
Children
Fiction
Stories
Much
Lives
I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.
Clemantine Wamariya
Hope
People
World
Inspire
Country
Own
Think
Other
Aim
Dare
About
Sharing
Around
Go
Experiences
Stories
Story
Them
Deep
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
Clifford D. Simak
Wind
Tell
High
Fires
Dogs
North
Burn
Stories
I love stories about women.
Clint Eastwood
Love
Women
About
Love Stories
Stories
I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.
Clive Barker
Age
People
Other
Tell
Knew
Pictures
Heads
How
Stories
Create
Certainly
Early
Early Age
I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.
Clive Barker
Love
Great
About
Idea
Terrible
Beginnings
Endings
Being
Stories
I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more opportunity.
Cobie Smulders
Opportunity
Looking
Independent
Independent Film
More
Feel
Always
Stories
Interesting
Interesting Stories
Film
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.
Cody Horn
Life
Love
Assumes
Everyone
Way
Tell
Done
Love Stories
Stories
Acting
Whole
I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
Colin Farrell
Day
Home
Me
End Of The Day
Few
Earning
Everyone
Battered
Laugh
Tell
Angeles
More
Weeks
Los
Los Angeles
Go
Go Home
End
Get
Just
Stories
Buzz
Two
Two Weeks
When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock it down to one place because it's all part of our imagination. They are legends for a reason. Their stories have endured for hundreds of years and, hopefully, they will for hundreds of years to come.
Colin Morgan
Will
Down
Think
Imagination
Our
France
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Lock
Hopefully
Castle
Part
Wrong
Come
Because
Years
Legends
Where
Endured
Stories
Place
Reason
Film
I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.
Colin Trevorrow
Memory
Space
Collective
Think
Films
Our
Supernatural
Area
Like
Venture
Sci-Fi
Occupy
Lot
Very
Human
Children
Stories
Loved
For me, my mythology growing up was 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' and 'Star Wars' and 'E.T.' and 'Ghostbusters.' That's what I grew up on, and there aren't many people who can write that kind of scale of story, stories that are that big.
Colm McCarthy
Me
People
Big
Lost
Scale
Kind
Write
Mythology
Ark
Up
Grew
Stories
Story
Who
Wars
Many
Star
Growing
Star Wars
Growing Up
Raiders
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm Toibin
You
Book
Think
Nine
Sort
Versions
Offering
Get
Intensity
Stories
Things
Competing
In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.
Colson Whitehead
College
Three
Wrote
Maybe
Short
Stories
Short Stories
The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.
Colson Whitehead
Myth
Sacrifice
Live
Heroic
Our
John
Idea
Integral
Die
Order
Stories
Us
Stand
Figures
Henry
Bones
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.
Colum McCann
Love
You
First
Important
Fall
Every
Other
Tell
Miracle
More
Fact
Throw
Conception
First Thing
Becomes
First-Person
Always
Continue
Person
Stone
Stories
Novel
Each
Letter
Thing
Receive
Need
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.
Colum McCann
Me
People
Dangerous
Think
Imagination
Ripping
Directly
Seldom
Also
Off
Very
Lacks
Fiction
Stories
Used
Lives
In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.
Connie Chung
Women
First
First Lady
Beginning
President
Type
Instead
Like
Got
Covering
Lady
Stories
In The Beginning
Us
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
Connie Nielsen
Character
You
Together
Animal
Writing
Smart
Political
Character Development
TV
Directing
Emotional
Development
Days
Different
Different Animal
Stories
In-Depth
Really
Bring
In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.
Constance Wu
Love
Pure
Philip
Mark
Carry
Given
Allowed
He
Cate Blanchett
Liked
Terms
Does
Always
Been
Lot
Model
Role
Role Model
Did
Stories
Loved
Story
Younger
Really
Acting
Who
Whole
Actor
There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.
Corey Stoll
Enjoy
Think
Though
Out
More
New
Come
York
New York
Being
Stories
Place
Really
Fascinating
Even
Actually
Ton
I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.
Corin Nemec
Myself
Good
Great
Character
Quality
Strong
Challenge
Important
Good Stories
Like
Go
Go For It
Stories
Script
Products
Even
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.
Cormac McCarthy
People
Better
Will
Mysteries
Damn
Damn Thing
Hundred
Books
Hundred Years
Only
Mystery
Written
Longer
Indulgent
Read
Were
Years
Years Ago
Get
Any
Going
Just
Anymore
Stories
Length
Used
Apparently
Thing
Need
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
Cornelia Funke
Good
She
Very
Stories
Grandmother
My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.
Cornelia Parker
You
Waiting
Mother
Wrong Thing
Brought
Horrors
Invested
Wrong
Sort
Up
German
Stories
Which
Thing
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