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A good book is a good book. End of story.
Malorie Blackman
Good
Book
End
Story
Good Book
I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
Mandy Moore
Buy
Rights
Book
Writing
Thought
Own
Projects
Finding
Able
About
My Own
Potentially
Read
Get
Want
Story
Much
Producing
Production
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
Love
Songs
Sing
Waits
Yiddish
Story
Tom
Tom Waits
My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika
Character
Animal
Book
Money
First
Important
Lesson
Boo
Local
Sold
Books
Kid
Ten
Main
Main Character
Exciting
Adventures
Most
Also
Learned
Learns
Shelter
Donated
Children
Different
Stories
Story
Personally
Fifteen
Lessons
Each
Published
There has to be some newness in the story or, at least, some aspect of the movie. I get bored if the story is told in the same way all the time. I get bored easily.
Manoj Bajpayee
Time
Way
Easily
Bored
Some
Least
Get
Same
Movie
Story
Newness
Aspect
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
Work
Nature
Long
Realistic
Films
Synthetic
Allegory
Developed
Terms
Story
Fantasy
Working
One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.
Mara Brock Akil
Our
Tell
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Story
Things
With 'Girlfriends,' even with 'The Game,' or even with 'Being Mary Jane,' I didn't get a chance to wrap up the story and, more specifically, show love.
Mara Brock Akil
Love
Game
Wrap
Girlfriends
More
Mary
Up
Get
Being
Story
Jane
Show
Even
Specifically
Chance
One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
Marc Forster
Work
Love
War
Book
World
Out
Structure
Main
Taking
Idea
Because
Huge
Huge Fan
Wanted
Fan
Story
Creating
Reasons
World War
I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Clever
Believe
Out
Prevent
Most
Around
Surprised
Person
Story
Figure
Even
Enjoying
The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
Marc Guggenheim
First
Tell
Entertaining
Goal
Foremost
Story
Satisfying
My relationship with fashion has always been that each of us stars in our own movies and costumes ourselves to play the part we want. You take blouses and jeans and dresses, and you put them together, and they tell your story.
Marc Jacobs
Fashion
Relationship
You
Together
Own
Stars
Our
Ourselves
Tell
Dresses
Costumes
Take
Part
Put
Always
Been
Want
Story
Movies
Them
Us
Your
Jeans
Each
Play
There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
Marc Laidlaw
Best
Game
Address
Out
Tried
Somehow
Constraints
Features
Through
Outside
Half-Life
Within
Always
Misunderstanding
How
Exist
Question
Up
Trying
Process
Story
Which
Interesting
Straight
Created
Use
Engine
Figure
Poses
Set
'Dragon Age' needs to have big story moments. It is a game about character first, and the party is an absolutely central part of that. I want to keep pursuing interactivity with the world: taking crowds to the next level or having things catch fire because you indiscriminately cast a fireball into a wheat field.
Marc Laidlaw
Needs
Character
You
Game
Age
World
Fire
First
Big
Party
Field
About
Having
Cast
Crowds
Indiscriminately
Pursuing
Absolutely
Part
Catch
Taking
Because
Wheat
Big Story
Want
Story
Central
Next
Next Level
Moments
Keep
Level
Things
Dragon
If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.
Marc Laidlaw
Good
You
Game
Yourself
Single
Lose
Way
Plenty
Out
See
House
Armour
Same
Difference
Where
Want
Story
Decorate
Your
Games
Skull
Novel
Fill
Player
Dragon
What makes 'A Christmas Story' universal, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, is that you recognize that family... It's ultimately about a family being glued together for the holiday season.
Marc Platt
Christmas
Family
You
Together
Celebrate
Holiday Season
Recognize
About
Makes
Glued
Ultimately
Being
Story
Whether
Holiday
Season
Universal
In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you're telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.
Marc Platt
You
Experience
Challenge
Faithful
Own
Medium
Recognize
Telling
Something
Point
Take
Also
Material
Source
Exist
Very
Offer
Any
Essence
Different
Story
Original
Unique
Adaptation
The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don't, and either way, it doesn't matter.
Marcia Clark
Truth
Freedom
You
Creative
Sometimes
Matter
Defense
Way
Evidence
Tell
More
Facts
Prosecution
Look
Go
Get
Happened
Story
Either
Works
Lucky
The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
Marco Beltrami
Me
Director
First
Mark
On-Screen
Intimacy
Way
Charm
Struck
Perfectly
Feel
Most
Forced
Did
Any
Screen
After
Story
Viewing
Capture
Believing
Thing
Ben
We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
Marcus Samuelsson
Food
About
Know
American
Getting
African
Story
Little
Much
European
It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It's the artist's story captured in 12 or 15 songs.
Maren Morris
Love
Listening
Digital
Become
Changing
Record
More
Songs
Industry
Still
Artist
Story
Realize
Full
Captured
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood
Water
Too
Odyssey
Hold
Story
Many
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
Margaret Haddix
Freedom
Whatever
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Characters
About
Make
Make Up
Up
Situations
Just
So Much Fun
Want
Story
Much
Flexibility
Fun
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.
Margaret MacMillan
Result
Ending
Past
Beginning
Biology
Starts
Other
Lies
Part
Between
Like
Human
Human Beings
In The Past
In-Between
Story
Interest
Themselves
Many
Beings
Creatures
Humans
The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.
Margaret MacMillan
Humanity
World
Long
Military
Range
Weapons
Long Story
Perhaps
Powers
Terrifying
End
Story
Capacity
Inhabitants
Even
Disposal
Bring
Damage
I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.
Margaret Mahy
Age
Writing
Young
Group
Think
Pleased
Above
Small
Small Children
Adult
Feel
Well
Another
Am
Very
Just
Young Adults
Children
Story
Which
Age Group
Prefer
Works
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