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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Jeff Bezos
Love
You
World
Lost
Know
Narrative
Author
Get
Love Stories
Stories
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
Jeff Kinney
Funny
World
Better
Own
Down
Think
Everyone
Would
Would-Be
Write
Better Place
Childhoods
Stories
Place
When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
Jeff Lemire
Me
Change
Writing
World
Seriously
First
Become
Before
Would
Cartoonist
Since
Around
Been
Stories
Decided
Then
Illustrating
Right
Watching
I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.
Jeff Lemire
Too Much
Whatever
Think
Too
Other
Project
Books
Evident
Out
Tell
About
Horror
Never
Sci-Fi
Go
Lot
Just
Want
Stories
Much
Page
I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.
Jeff Nichols
Me
Creative
Writing
Father
Seen
Every
Everything
Paper
High
Would
Having
Could
Weeks
Take
Open
Most
Also
Always
Up
Junior
Junior High
Listed
Short
Movie
Grew
Stories
Short Stories
Interested
Movies
Creative Writing
Growing
Growing Up
Watching
Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
Jeff Nichols
Try
Approach
Kind
Some
Emotion
Write
Idea
Whenever
Stories
Theme
Universal
Financing for 'Shotgun Stories' was initiated with money from close friends and family. This is where the money to go into production came from. After production, a company called 'Upload Films' came on board and provided post-production funds and services. In both instances, people were taking a gamble on us.
Jeff Nichols
Family
People
Money
Films
Post-Production
Financing
Both
Taking
Came
Go
Were
Provided
Friends
Friends And Family
Close
Close Friends
Where
Stories
After
Board
Us
Gamble
Shotgun
Production
Company
Initiated
Services
Funds
I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.
Jeff Nichols
Hope
You
Matter
Hopeless
Think
Films
Those
Both
Take
How
Shelter
Endings
Stories
Hard
Search
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
Jeffery Deaver
Life
Own
Relationships
Draw
All Writers
My Own
Tend
Writers
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Course
Personal
Personal Experiences
Human
Experiences
Stories
Separate
Human Relationships
Describing
Keep
Largely
Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.
Jeffrey Bell
Day
Great
You
Remember
End Of The Day
Clever
Action
Giant
Had
Dialogue
End
Stories
Avengers
Moment
Moments
I'm grateful to the creative allies behind 'UnReal' who are willing to stand behind disenfranchised communities of people worldwide and help to tell their stories.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Creative
Grateful
People
Worldwide
Tell
Willing
Unreal
Allies
Disenfranchised
Behind
Stories
Stand
Communities
Help
Who
He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Me
You
Will
Meet
Danny
Scary
Guy
More
Adore
He
Him
Leave
His
Than
Stories
Interesting
Butcher
We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.
Jeffrey Skoll
Great
Change
World
Problems
Power
Action
Our
Pressing
Remain
Through
Inspiring
Take
Great Stories
Most
Audiences
Committed
Stories
Social
Social Change
Meaningful
Engaging
Compelling
The goal of Participant is to tell stories that serve as catalysts for social change. With our television channel, we can bring those stories into the homes of our viewers every day.
Jeffrey Skoll
Day
Change
Every Day
Every
Channel
Our
Those
Television
Tell
Participant
Goal
Stories
Social
Social Change
Viewers
Homes
Serve
Bring
We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
Jeffrey Skoll
Together
Opportunity
Organization
Long
Build
Focused
Tell
Entrepreneurs
Investing
Idea
Fairly
Another
Nascent
Began
Celebrating
Stories
After
Social
Them
Realized
Help
Thing
Bring
I give a speech at some colleges and corporations called 'Performing Your Life: An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor.' I get asked a lot of questions, and people say, 'Your stories are wonderful. You should write a book.'
Jeffrey Tambor
Life
You
Book
People
Wonderful
Corporations
Say
People Say
Some
Colleges
Give
Write
Performing
Lot
Questions
Get
Stories
Asked
Should
Your
Evening
Speech
I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.
Jeffrey Tambor
People
Mine
Tell
Part
Stories
Decided
Interested
Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
Jeffrey Thomas
Science
Other
Borders
Seeing
Horror
Only
Between
Genres
Print
Science Fiction
Demonstrate
Began
Did
Fiction
Stories
I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.
Jeffrey Thomas
Work
Too
Changed
Guess
Indefinitely
Carried
Restless
Something
Could
Polished
Always
Up
Begin
Improved
Get
Stories
Story
Next
Appearances
Away
Eager
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Love
Wise
Women
Daughter
About
Both
She
Issues
Mature
Discussing
Childhood
Stories
Loves
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
Jehane Noujaim
News
You
Travel
Events
Mother
Father
Think
Back
Exact
See
Able
About
Makes
Understand
How
Dialogue
American
Same
Egyptian
Just
Anybody
Different
Stories
Information
Midwest
Forth
Even
Basis
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
Jen Kirkman
Women
Will
Think
Laugh
Out
Laughing
Guy
Read
Chick
Get
Stories
Story
There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
Jen Kirkman
Life
Good
Heart
Surgeon
Pilot
Fly
Own
Window
No Interest
Ten
My Own
Fact
Excellent
Except
Open
Taking
Also
Make
Learn
How
Lot
Up
Behalf
Being
Want
Stories
Interest
Skating
Japan
Might
Figure
Figure Skating
Washing
Things
Competitive
I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.
Jenji Kohan
Me
People
Setting
Out
Characters
Introduced
Follow
Rather
Write
Lead
Come
Like
Female
Than
Stories
Them
Flawed
Shows
Deeply
Thing
Necessarily
Set
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
Jenna McCarthy
Women
Men
Out
Tell
Impatient
Guys
Answers
Forever
Get
Want
Stories
Tune
Frustrated
The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.
Jenna Wortham
Myself
Rich
Films
Ruined
Plot
TV
TV Shows
More
Spoil
Like
Am
Truly
Stories
Interesting
Interesting Stories
Convinced
Viewing
Shows
Sauce
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