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If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.
Michael Horse
Work
Great
People
Wait
Definitive
Never
Come
Around
Going
Story
Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
Michael Horton
Impossible
Old
Christ
Every
Once
Seeing
New
Message
Read
Without
Narrative
Testament
Truly
Foreshadowed
Anticipated
New Testament
Story
Again
Page
Old Testament
Grasp
Event
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.
Michael Ignatieff
History
Genocide
Word
Cruelty
Few
Victim
Imagination
Raphael
Moral
General
More
General Public
He
Also
Been
Western
Revolt
Than
Unending
Human
Achievements
The History Of
Enduring
Story
Against
Public
Ignored
Who
Figures
Whose
'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
Michael Imperioli
Police
Tells
Visual
City
Through
Detroit
Been
Providing
Authenticity
Offers
Michigan
Blue-Collar
Story
Flavor
Landscape
Unique
Slang
Numbers
It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.
Michael Korda
Problem
Worth
Everybody
Tell
Telling
True
Suppose
Most
Said
Often
Story
Them
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta
Time
You
Book
People
Evil
Reading
Ghost
Releasing
About
Someone
Something
Horror
Supernatural
Dirty
Read
Wonder
Sitting
Suspense
Want
Story
Subway
Really
Dismiss
Bomb
Play
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Michael Ledeen
God
History
Accident
Earth
Mostly
Fallible
Error
Human
Story
Created
Human History
Creatures
Profoundly
I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go.
Michael Mann
Photography
Training
Words
Other
Everybody
Else
Definitely
Something
Something Else
Becomes
Block
Go
Blocking
Cameras
Lot
Train
Going
Where
Moves
In Other Words
Story
Which
Board
Then
Use
Actually
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
Michael Ondaatje
Me
Later
Those
Plot
Tend
Come
Know
Story
Theme
Even
Things
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Michael Ondaatje
Later
Once
Something
Restructure
Around
Editorial
Discovered
Up
Going
Move
Maybe
Happen
Happens
Story
Clue
Might
Capacity
Much
Things
Set
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
Michael Ondaatje
Sit
Down
Out
Carrying
Would
Bored
Write
Get
Quite
Story
Plan
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
Michael Ondaatje
You
Book
Writing
Darkness
Case
Write
Beyond
Discovering
Discovery
Where
Story
Page
Each
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.
Michael Palin
Me
People
Better
Thought
Before
Other
Input
Tell
Threatening
Write
Had
Without
Been
Any
So Many People
Autobiography
Story
Asking
Many
Biography
When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.
Michael Paterniti
You
Somebody
Long
Lasts
Tells
Sort
Caught
Timeless
Story
Moment
I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there's wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.
Michael Paterniti
Love
Myself
People
Job
Somewhere
Living
Our
Those
Out
Find
Magical
Something
More
Inspiring
Sort
Go
Surprising
Wonder
Improbable
Curiosity
Uplifting
Stories
Story
Little
Them
Page
Even
Bring
All the guys at Marvel are really passionate, and they love entertaining folks, and they really think about the story, and there's a lot of thought that goes into that.
Michael Pena
Love
Thought
Think
Entertaining
Folks
About
Guys
Marvel
Passionate
Lot
Goes
Story
Really
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
Michael Pollan
Food
Home
Kind
Know
Behind
Story
Serve
I write books that will make 10 or 12 hours disappear, and hopefully they'll resonate with you for a few days, where you'll remember the characters and the story. That suits me fine; I am happy with that.
Michael Robotham
Me
You
Happy
Suits
Remember
Resonate
Will
Few
Books
Characters
Hopefully
Fine
Write
Disappear
Days
Hours
Make
Am
Where
Story
I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.
Michael Robotham
Journey
Me
Believe
Addition
Complex
Out
Plot
Characters
Be Different
More
Take
Likely
Reader
Real
Very
Different
Want
Story
Them
Each
Believable
I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.
Michael Robotham
Me
Example
Would
Stay
Feel
Like
For Example
Readers
Australia
German
Confident
Story
Need
Set
I'll say this: I want to become a distraction! And what I mean is by making big plays and doing good stuff on the field. Although nobody would print that, because that's not a story. Gotta keep bringing up the locker-room situation because he's gay.
Michael Sam
Good
Gay
Big
Become
Situation
Field
Say
Distraction
Would
He
Nobody
Stuff
Print
Although
Because
Making
Gotta
Doing
Doing Good
Up
Want
Story
Mean
Keep
Bringing
Plays
The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
Michael Sheen
Life
Needs
Me
Care
Resonate
My Life
First
Characters
Some
About
Something
Through
Feel
Like
Read
Sort
First Thing
Going
The First Thing
Experienced
Happens
Story
Script
Meaning
Engaged
Even
Compelled
Thing
Need
The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.
Michael Shnayerson
Day
Every Day
Three
Country
Every
Consequences
Several
Destroyed
Mining
Physical
No Idea
Rate
Purple
Week
Pounds
Idea
New
Most
Still
Legacy
Mountain
Mountaintop
America
American
Being
Happens
Story
Explosives
Why
Million
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
Michael Specter
Success
History
Well
Greatest
May
Story
Success Story
Medical
Universal
Vaccination
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.
Michael Storm
Time
Light
Other
Our
Russell
Ratings
Magnificent
Writer
Head
Exciting
Most
Gordon
Were
Lines
Loved
Story
Story Lines
Working
Acting
Show
Actor
Number
It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.
Michael Vick
Great
Three
Past
Situation
Late
Broke
Some
Pretty
Something
Point
Weeks
Catastrophic
Like
Obviously
Felt
Got
Been
Hand
Hit
Flag
Going
Happen
After
Unfortunate
Story
Much
Play
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