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I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
Brian De Palma
Myself
Character
You
Values
First
Reap
Tell
Restricted
Dropped
Pieces
Fairly
Sort
Order
Form
Story
Straightforward
Requirement
Explore
Your
Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
Brian P. Cleary
Funny
Words
Joke
Enjoy
Funny Story
Kids
Laughing
Find
Bored
About
Comprehend
Something
More
Seldom
Adult
Also
Because
Understand
Questions
Often
Story
Ask
One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?
Brian Posehn
Best
Myself
You
Writing
One Thing
About
Give
Know
Concern
Story
Mean
Sarah
Thing
Program
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
Brian Selznick
Unfinished
Big
Once
Given
Idea
Ideas
How
Story
Should
Full
Illustrated
Million
I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.
Brian Selznick
Words
Wild
Take
Disappear
Pictures
Because
Always
Up
Move
Move Forward
Where
Loved
Story
Turning
Page
Pages
Forward
Whole
Things
The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!
Brian Sibley
Challenge
King
Finished
Cinemas
Our
Towards
Until
Return
Making
End
Trying
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Story
Which
Convey
Film
Third
I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.
Brian Skerry
Book
Water
Swimming
Late
Harp
Saw
Hooked
Through
Knew
Sheets
Huge
Surrounded
Green
Wanted
Story
Ice
Pools
Them
Then
Seals
Flipped
Right
Images
There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.
Brian Stelfreeze
Attitude
Art
Writing
Neither
Table
Something
Only
Both
Writer
Combination
Where
Happens
Story
Us
Bring
Brings
2014 was a really big year for me because I was able to go into a storyline with Stephanie McMahon, and the WWE Divas championship wasn't part of that, but for me, it was the biggest story I've ever been a part of in my whole entire career.
Brie Bella
Me
Big
Year
Able
Entire
Entire Career
Part
Because
WWE
Go
Been
Biggest
Story
McMahon
Storyline
Really
Whole
Ever
Championship
Career
The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
Brie Larson
Culture
Face
Every
Out
Details
Myths
Still
Same
Same Story
Different
Story
Swap
Might
The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
Bruce Coville
Teacher
Time
Remember
Seriously
Long
First
Thinking
Gave
Our
Seventeen
Would
Write
Writer
Long Story
Like
Period
First Time
Becoming
Doing
Came
Grade
Sixth
Loved
Story
Us
Working
Extended
Started
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
Bruce Coville
Best
Me
Writing
Think
Carried
Out
Some
More
Fact
Tend
Writer
Come
Got
Short
Just
In Fact
Form
Stories
Short Stories
Short Story
Story
Naturally
Novel
Novels
Away
Started
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.
Bruce Feiler
Positive
You
Confidence
Overcome
Negative
Own
Tell
Some
Give
Feel
Like
Overcame
Felt
How
Children
Story
Them
Skills
Your
Moments
Hardship
Need
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
Bruce Feiler
Positive
Alone
Family
You
Will
Thrive
Odds
Difficult
Increase
Back
Ability
Bottom
Bottom Line
Generations
Bounce
Come
Line
Refine
May
Want
Story
Happier
Create
Act
Your
Many
Moments
Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.
Bruce Feiler
Positive
Happy
Communicate
Problems
Important
Research
Telling
About
Through
Simply
Most
Also
Talking
Effectively
Families
Decades
Story
Mean
Means
Shown
My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.
Bruce Feiler
Good
Word
First
Incurable
Tell
Exaggerate
Bruce
Good Story
Shape
Share
Knew
Instantly
Name
Occasionally
Isaac
Inevitably
Condition
Heard
Same
Often
Story
Asimov
Used
Describe
Suffered
Desire
In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.
Bruce Feirstein
Broccoli
Out
Wilson
Case
David
Had
Idea
Came
Lot
Blood
Michael
Stone
Done
Story
Barbara
Them
Worked
Producers
I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
Bruce Nash
People
Try
Minds
Tell
Entertain
Something
Take
Troubles
Off
Trying
Just
Story
Might
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
Bryan Burrough
You
Book
Slight
Tension
Always
Nonfiction
Intact
His
Sell
Author
Accurately
Wants
Story
Hollywood
Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.
Bryan Cranston
Job
Back
Draw
Part
Up
Story
Actor
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Experience
Comedy
Humour
Say
Through
True
Buddy
Because
True Story
Very
Truthful
Story
Lens
Viewing
Based
Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Me
You
Together
Writing
Thought
Way
Find
Putting
Story
Really
Exposed
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
Buchi Emecheta
Time
Own
Background
Telling
My Own
Highlight
Make
Sure
Cultural
Same
Same Time
Africa
Stories
Story
Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
Buck Henry
Love
Mother
Girl
About
Guy
Having
He
Affair
Falls
Story
Basically
Core
I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Superior
Odds
Lost
Think
Side
Weaponry
Indians
Only
Feel
Fair
Most
Because
Been
American
Story
Fights
The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
Bunker Roy
People
College
Barefoot
Adopting
Supposed
Off
Owning
Behind
Process
Story
Which
Really
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