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I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
Al Michaels
Time
You
Better
Sometimes
Will
Unless
Air
Something
Never
Beyond
Know
Go
Repeat
Source
Accurate
Happens
Story
Original
Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.
Al Sharpton
Day
Police
Wait
Innocent
Single
Every
Side
Rules
Must
Civilians
Argue
Until
Police Officers
Single Day
Court
Arrested
Subjected
Officers
Same
Order
Story
Including
Every Single Day
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
Al Yankovic
Try
Down
Think
Way
Tell
Would
Anecdotes
Write
Points
Ideas
Parts
Edit
Arrange
Story
Storyline
Notebook
Them
Then
Full
Help
Amusing
It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.
Alain Ducasse
Music
Food
You
Beginning
Striking
Tells
London
Develop
Between
Know
Concept
Well
How
Cultivate
End
Very
Staff
Different
Story
Different Elements
Create
Full
Unique
Elements
Alchemy
I'm excited about becoming a transmedia storyteller. The idea that we can tell the 'Agent Mom' story online with MTV Comics and build a fan base that we can take over to Paramount to discuss turning that story it into a movie is just awesome.
Alaina Huffman
Mom
Build
Awesome
Tell
Paramount
About
Online
Take
Excited
Idea
Over
Becoming
Comics
Discuss
Just
Movie
Fan
Fan Base
Story
Storyteller
Agent
Turning
Base
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Alan Alda
Great
Me
Science
Extremely
Detective
Detective Story
Exciting
Like
Read
Because
Front
Happening
Story
Us
Right
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
Alan Cumming
Knowledge
You
Television
Scene
Writers
Nobody
Know
Knows
Always
How
Go
End
Going
Where
Happen
Story
Theater
Certain
Even
Each
Film
Play
Thing
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
Alan Dean Foster
Me
Own
Bad
Rapidly
Would
Bored
Something
My Own
Rather
Something New
Tendency
New
Know
Read
Material
Get
Rewriting
Story
Mean
Hard
I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.
Alan Furst
Dark
Better
Nothing
Secret
Phony
Something
Pick
True
Look
Read
True Story
Trail
Up
Than
Done
Where
Stories
Story
Much
Use
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
Alan Garner
Love
Research
Enormous
Write
Put
Off
Story
Much
Moment
Helps
Amount
Starting
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
Book
Words
Own
Stage
Else
Exactly
Ability
Someone
Absorb
Make
Doing
Story
Your
It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader than just figuring out a song. You're also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.
Alan Menken
You
Song
Writing
Broader
Out
Telling
Diverse
Structure
Casting
Voices
Writing Process
Songs
Pushing
Songwriting
Also
Within
Becomes
Dealing
Always
Arrangements
Than
Just
Orchestration
Process
Story
Forward
Figuring
Platform
Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.
Alan Menken
Work
Me
You
Will
Job
Thinking
Medium
Way
Say
Kind
Run
Telling
Would
Embrace
About
More
Pick
Part
Most
Knowing
Genre
How
Effective
Effective Way
Want
Story
Little
Then
Use
Harder
You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever.
Alan Menken
You
Whatever
Stage
Dramatic
Television
Logic
Arc
Emotional
Push
Songs
Score
Same
Want
Story
Whether
Creating
Forward
Film
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.
Alan Moore
Time
Together
Ending
Beginning
Thinking
Once
About
Through
Write
Points
Generally
Putting
Idea
Know
Couple
Sort
Halfway
Although
Got
Up
Story
Sentence
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
Alan Rickman
Saying
Me
Better
Will
Every
Sympathy
Say
Bit
Out
About
Cross
Mystery
Write
Writers
Never
Beyond
Make
Edit
How
Any
Move
Where
Story
Novel
Play
Here
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.
Alan Stern
Do-It-Yourself
Other
Other Countries
Programs
Way
Spike
Countries
Discovered
Golden
Story
Apollo
Create
Basic
We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.
Alan Yang
Three
Every
Characters
Kind
Run
About
Parks
Had
Well
Because
Always
Got
Were
Just
Middle
Stories
Story
Rhythm
Worked
Really
Episode
Show
Many
The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
Alastair Campbell
Sometimes
First
Late
Pressures
Wrong
Greater
Than
Get
Story
Right
I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.
Alastair Reynolds
Science
Stupid
About
Over
Expense
Being
Story
Really
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
You
Old
Mind
Long
Year
Down
Run
Throughout
Long Run
Never
Unconscious
Absorb
Simply
Stuff
Over
Particular
Know
Read
Because
Chew
Lot
Just
Just Because
Story
Interesting
Prefer
Might
Theme
Much
Useful
Works
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Try
Degree
Think
Find
Spin
No Idea
Something
No Reason
Take
Idea
New
Discarded
Does
Got
Story
Might
Ingenuity
Should
Reason
Chops
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
Imagine
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.
Alec Baldwin
Nobody Cares
Cares
Everywhere
About
Outlets
Nobody
Cameras
Autograph
Story
Them
Your
File
Media
What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Time
Good
You
Year
Realistic
Other
Way
Those
See
Cost
Scene
Takes
Performance
Nobody
Edit
Making
Get
Any
Any Other Way
Depends
Story
Jewel
Need
I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Time
Me
You
Example
Gave
One Minute
Tell
Minute
Superficial
About
Gives
Obsession
For Example
Look
Advertising
Learn
Camera
Lot
Began
Same
Same Time
Vices
Story
Capacity
Skills
Actor
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Think
Other
Everyone
Way
Tell
Most
Because
Doing
Traditional
Traditional Way
Experimental
Story
Film
Thing
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