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I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.
Matthew McConaughey
Great
Shine
Characters
Some
Could
Part
Like
Read
Boy
Said
Lot
Where
Want
Crappy
Stories
Story
Really
Sucks
Here
For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
Matthew Modine
Photography
Digital
Example
Collateral
Kind
Kinds
Some
Some Things
Raw
For Example
Itself
Very
Michael
Stories
Lend
Lends
Themselves
Certain
Film
Things
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
Evil
Google
Big
Society
Our
Benevolent
Alive
See
Write
Check
Checks
Checks And Balances
Likes
Force
Balances
Continue
Provide
Itself
Just
Stories
Which
Us
Engine
Using
Search
Search Engine
Keep
Why
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
Maurice Ashley
Game
Example
Own
My Own
Had
Like
For Example
Particularly
Talking
Robinson
Years
Years Ago
Jackie
Jackie Robinson
Stories
Happened
Story
Fifty
Forty
Incidents
Compare
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
Maurice Sendak
Mother
Father
Stupid
Scariest
Written
Stories
Psychotic
Ever
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
Max Apple
Character
Bereft
Plot
Only
Writer
Volume
Continuity
Often
Stories
Unified
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Writing
Before
Since
Making
Been
Stories
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Change
Pure
Myth
Down
Has-Been
Tradition
Been
Handed
Die
Oral
Just
Stories
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
Maxine Waters
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Down
Those
Out
Find
Struggling
Doing
Been
Get
Trying
Stories
In-Depth
Interested
Urban
Them
Agenda
Asking
Really
Organizations
Community-Based
Who
Here
Funds
Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.
Max von Sydow
Positively
End
Stories
Unfortunately
You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it.
Maya Hawke
Good
You
World
Darkness
Vibes
Out
Good Vibes
Put
Because
Lot
Want
Stories
Them
Viewers
Many
Even
Need
It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.
Maye Musk
Women
Amazing
Older
Focusing
See
Magazines
How
Real
Been
Brands
Stories
Older Women
Designers
When I was a kid, I'd create my own movies at home. I'd record myself doing a scene, then stop the camera, change my clothes, and do a scene as another character. It sounds silly, but I just loved to tell stories.
Meagan Tandy
Myself
Home
Character
Change
Own
Clothes
Kid
Tell
Record
Silly
My Own
Scene
Another
Doing
Sounds
Camera
Just
Stop
Stories
Loved
Movies
Then
Create
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.
Meg Cabot
Best
Home
Class
Kid
Drawing
Kind
Academically
Well
Because
Always
Making
Making Up
Up
Very
Grades
Stop
Stories
Little
Notebooks
Really
Who
Bringing
Margins
My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
Meg Cabot
Day
Mom
Family
Sit
Our
Tell
TV
Ate
Table
About
Had
Allowed
Around
Were
Italian
Irish
Stories
Story
While
Dad
Watch
There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
Megan Smith
Work
Technology
Women
Lost
Hundreds
Minorities
Some
Cases
Examples
Well
Well Known
Known
Doing
Been
Historic
Current
Stories
Many
I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.
Meghan Daum
Me
Writing
Took
Supposed
Because
Around
Nonfiction
Occur
Doing
Off
Short
Fiction
Stories
Short Stories
Realized
Then
Workshop
Thing
Started
Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.
Megyn Kelly
Time
Opportunity
Months
Television
More
Print
Because
Go
Than
Reporters
Stories
In-Depth
Depth
Much
Certain
Working
Oftentimes it feels like Fox stands alone in the media on certain stories.
Megyn Kelly
Alone
Feels
Like
Oftentimes
Stories
Certain
Stands
Media
Fox
I love my job... but I find myself awkwardly straddling the divide between British Islam and the British media. I get pretty exhausted of having to constantly endure a barrage of lazy stereotypes, inflammatory headlines, disparaging generalisations, and often inaccurate and baseless stories.
Mehdi Hasan
Love
Myself
Job
Islam
Exhausted
Find
Constantly
Pretty
Having
Divide
Lazy
Between
Headlines
Stereotypes
Get
Often
Endure
Stories
Inaccurate
Disparaging
Media
British
The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.
Mel Giedroyc
You
Happy
People
Events
Gift
Down
Difficult
Elusive
Kind
Following
More
Deal
Pin
Stories
Them
Therefore
Harder
Neat
Resolution
It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'
Mel Giedroyc
Gift
Drawn
Very
Get
Stories
Hard
Wholeheartedly
Utterly
I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.
Mel Giedroyc
Love
Gift
School
First
Relate
Took
Kind
Wrong
First Love
Proud
Bullied
Person
Stories
Us
Really
Granted
Who
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
Melanie Lynskey
Some
Poetry
Write
Head
Going
Stories
Script
Used
Reason
To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.
Melanie Scrofano
People
Important
Took
Tell
Characters
Point
Make
How
Am
Getting
Difference
Stories
Which
Interesting
Realize
Really
Satisfying
Here
Playing
I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'
Melissa McCarthy
You
Women
Better
Men
Men And Women
Every
Think
Please
Backgrounds
Some
More
Point
Point Of View
Points
Like
Make
Sure
Yes
Get
Same
Just
Ladies
Being
Different
Want
Stories
Different Backgrounds
Story
Storytelling
View
Your
Many
Bring
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