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I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.
Banks
Music
Me
Learning
Memory
Listening
Girl
Young
Intrigued
About
More
Voice
Through
Know
Felt
Tracy
Revelation
Just
Being
Wanted
Young Girl
Story
Even
Her
We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.
Barbara Kopple
Character
World
Events
Will
Corner
Our
Say
Impact
Take
Never
Know
Around
How
Surprise
Story
Turn
Us
Really
Filming
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
Barkhad Abdi
Myself
Character
Me
Will
Job
Think
See
Somali
Only
Like
Go
Go For It
Fits
Story
Actor
Comedians are always narrating the story of the people. Always.
Baron Vaughn
People
Comedians
Always
Story
I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
Barry Diller
Pure
Own
Else
Unless
Complexity
Clarity
Superficiality
Never
Know
Makes
Answers
Line
Shining
Essentially
Anybody
Anybody Else
Story
Product
Internal
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
Barry Eisler
Government
Think
Out
Spies
Somehow
Seems
Come
Involving
Always
Just
Story
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
Barry Eisler
Job
Extract
Vehicle
Maintaining
Identify
Essence
Screen
Different
Screenplay
Story
Novel
Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
Barry McGuigan
Heart
Hurt
Lose
Fighter
Difficult
Every
Everything
Stay
Could
Narrow
Get
Break
Story
Apart
Straight
Your
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth
Needs
Pressure
Perception
Feeling
Starts
Secret
Fiction
Story
Unique
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Baz Luhrmann
Myth
Intriguing
Terms
Make
Because
Condition
Up
Human
Human Condition
Story
Mechanics
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
Baz Luhrmann
Relationship
Simple
Passion
Old
Lost
Tell
Arabia
Scarlett
Lawrence
Emotional
Between
Always
Get
Tumultuous
Loved
Story
Whether
Place
Epics
Faraway
I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.
Beanie Feldstein
Character
Me
You
Musicals
Never
Like
Looked
Were
Up
Grew
Center
Story
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
Beau Bridges
Good
Character
Enjoy
Favorite
Good Story
Doing
Roles
Story
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
Beau Bridges
Family
Year
Favorite
Brother
Had
Nominated
Been
Story
Whole
Oscar
In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
Beau Willimon
Politics
Creative
People
Will
Stage
Believe
Tell
Like
Attracted
Lot
Campaign
Very
Role
Trying
Craft
Candidates
Want
Story
Theatrical
Actor
Playing
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Beck
Time
Sometimes
Inspire
Will
Somewhere
Else
Lyrics
Hopefully
Somewhere Else
Idea
Most
Exist
Subject
Story
The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
Beeban Kidron
Injustice
Women
Poverty
Rule
Outcome
India
Impact
Absolutely
Imperialism
Happened
Story
Which
Central
Against
Them
Deprivation
British
We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
Beeban Kidron
King
Increasingly
Offered
Diet
Sensation
Story
Which
I'll take any story if it's good.
Bela Lugosi
Good
Take
Any
Story
The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
Ben Bradlee
Tough
Carrying
Would
Tough Thing
Take
Were
Been
Off
Stories
Woodward
Decide
Story
Us
Really
Coal
Right
Thing
For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.
Ben Dolnick
Time
Long
Long Time
Way
Collections
Almost
Since
Like
Look
Were
Same
Precisely
Story
Meant
Meant To Be
Novels
Enjoyed
On 'Supernatural,' you go to a location and another location, and every week they do amazing things up there. You have to kind of hit the ground running and really start to look to the core of the story you're trying to tell.
Ben Edlund
You
Amazing
Every
Location
Tell
Kind
Running
Supernatural
Week
Look
Another
Go
Amazing Things
Up
Hit
Trying
Story
Really
Ground
Things
Start
Core
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.
Ben Horowitz
You
Remember
Employees
Minds
Easy
Memorize
Objectives
Emphasize
Story
Hard
'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.
Ben Lovett
Me
Song
Old
Three
Devil
Beneath
Tells
Somehow
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Piano
Reminds
Makes
Lot
Story
Fun
After the separation of children from families seeking to join the United States was embraced as the official policy of our government, we should ask ourselves what story we will tell. President Trump's story is one of cruelty - that we may do something unfathomable to deter families from coming to America.
Ben Rhodes
Government
Will
Cruelty
Separation
President
Our
States
Ourselves
Tell
Embraced
Deter
Seeking
Something
Join
Policy
Coming
Trump
Families
America
Official
May
Unfathomable
Children
After
Story
Ask
Should
United
United States
It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.
Ben Schnetzer
You
Vision
Political
Conviction
Incredible
Mark
Otherwise
Humour
Danger
Bit
Telling
Steam
Crucial
He
Feel
Like
Audience
Becoming
Got
Coming
His
Story
Them
Agenda
Full
Activist
Play
Humanist
Humbling
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