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As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
Amish Tripathi
God
You
Karma
Rest
Giving
Important
Way
Hoot
Stay
Critics
Stay True
About
Writer
True
Readers
Without
Up
Author
Want
Story
Should
Your
Publishers
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.
Amity Shlaes
Change
People
Problem
Faster
Rates
Fired
Disappearing
Employment
Lot
Than
America
Did
Difference
Story
While
Europe
Comparing
Found
I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the 'impossible' position.
Amos Oz
Fear
Sometimes
Political
Impossible
Language
Trembling
Panic
Rivals
Always
Curiosity
Listen
Behind
Story
Near
Awe
Nuances
Position
I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.
Amruta Khanvilkar
Love
Character
Big
Style
Every
Films
Telling
Small
Beautifully
Making
Story
Film
Her
Film-Making
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
Amy Bloom
Me
You
Experience
Few
Paragraphs
Poem
Come
Surprise
Short
Breadth
Short Story
Story
Depth
Novel
Last
Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.
Amy Chozick
Me
Everything
Saw
Story
Japan
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
Amy Chua
Success
Me
You
Generation
Think
Neutral
Feel
Powerful
Identity
Within
Always
Glue
Been
Huge
Optimist
America
American
May
Story
American Identity
Success Story
Uniquely
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
Amy Grant
Great
You
Song
Somebody
Else
Way
Tell
Clarity
About
Something
No-One
Know
Great Thing
Story
Then
Means
Your
Thing
Apply
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
Amy Hempel
Great
News
You
Writing
Related
Circling
Rules
Easily
Pretty
No Idea
Someone
Great One
Small
Could
Write
Had
Idea
Journalism
Learn
Because
How
Doing
Were
Itself
Did
Closer
Getting
Fiction
Story
News Story
Might
Teach
Thing
Things
Started
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
Amy Hempel
Day
You
Wonderful
Envy
Wait
Other
Back
Way
Those
Out
Tell
Kind
Rush
Never
Know
Go
Refine
Revision
Than
Done
Maybe
Just
Happened
Story
Then
Working
Less
Who
I fell in love with Nawaz on-screen after watching 'Gangs of Wasseypur.' So my love story starts with him from there. I was quite nervous to act alongside him. He is an excellent actor.
Amy Jackson
Love
Nervous
Love Story
Starts
On-Screen
Excellent
He
Alongside
Fell
Him
Quite
After
Story
Act
Gangs
Actor
Watching
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
Amy Purdy
Imagination
Borders
Also
Learned
Begins
Ends
Where
Story
Actual
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
Amy Sedaris
Market
Favorite
Favorite Things
Discovered
Handmade
Often
Behind
Story
Them
Flea
Things
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.
Amy Sedaris
Good
Family
You
Think
Someone
Something
Edited
Always
Off
Quick
Get
Going
Being
Story
Storyteller
Cuts
Really
Your
Large
Large Family
Interrupted
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
Anand Giridharadas
Home
Book
Writing
Old
College
Country
Back
States
Telling
India
About
How
Came
Up
Waking
Waking Up
America
Moved
After
Stagnant
Story
Suddenly
Growing
Growing Up
United
United States
Right
The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.
Anand Mahindra
India
Constantly
Rural
Threatened
Perceived
Empowerment
Impotence
Authority
Lack
Being
Story
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
Anderson Cooper
Work
Me
Other
Way
Tell
Someone
More
Allow
Likely
Also
Likes
Knows
Story
Cuts
A lot of people know the name Gloria Vanderbilt, but they don't really know the whole story behind her, the real person that she is.
Anderson Cooper
People
Name
Know
She
Real
Lot
Person
Real Person
Behind
Story
Really
Whole
Her
I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.
Anderson Silva
Great
Respect
World
Great Story
Sport
Because
Biggest
Story
Fighters
Here
I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!
Andie MacDowell
Work
You
People
Sometimes
Remember
Gorgeous
Big
Think
Say
Says
Out
TV
TV Show
Someone
Finish
Throwing
Name
Like
Names
Know
Until
George
His
George Clooney
Clooney
Story
Clues
Show
Games
Play
Start
I've always wanted to be a woman who isn't afraid to tell her story.
Andra Day
Woman
Tell
Always
Afraid
Wanted
Story
Who
Her
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
Andre Balazs
You
Director
Together
Stars
Writer
Putting
Hotel
Come
Hire
Line
Up
Often
Movie
Story
Production
Old-Time
Compare
Designer
Set
Set Designer
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
Andre Dubus III
Character
Writing
Matter
Try
Philosophy
Plot
See
Point
Point Of View
Write
Goes
Where
Story
View
Ever
I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.
Andre Royo
Love
Together
World
Simple
Feeling
Big
Films
Tell
City
Indie
Small
Head
Budget
New
Without
Big Budget
Coming
Trying
York
Getting
Vibe
Just
New York
New York City
Story
Theater
Storytelling
Craziness
Your
Started
In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.
Andrea Barrett
Surgeon
Exhausted
Soldier
Carrying
Finds
One-Night
Hospital
Outside
Over
Another
Story
Pony
Working
Body
Eventually
Published
Reins
Assistant
Night
Gates
I am not supposed to reveal much about my role in 'Thiruppangal.' But I can say that I am playing a journalist. It is a beautiful story, and I have got a meaty role to play. Sharadha Narayanan is shaping up the movie in an interesting manner.
Andrea Jeremiah
Beautiful
Journalist
Say
About
Shaping
Supposed
Reveal
Got
Am
Up
Role
Movie
Story
Interesting
Manner
Much
Play
Playing
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