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I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
David Friedman
Christmas
Good
Grace
King
Year
Luck
Good Luck
Musical
Goodbye
Also
Island
Short
Different
Short Story
Story
Productions
Based
If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.
David Grann
Good
Way
Out
Find
Good Story
Idea
Get
Story
Right
Right Idea
The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.
David Grinspoon
Innovation
Our
Risk
Through
New
Overcoming
New Forms
Existential
Story
Forms
Cooperation
Species
I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don't really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.
David Grinspoon
Work
Great
People
Space
Technically
Think
Launch
About
Tend
Takes
Mission
Missions
Learned
How
Hear
Lot
Get
Scratch
Space Exploration
Stories
Story
Interested
Pad
Really
Exploration
The Duffer Brothers are so attentive to story and detail while being wildly respectful of me and what I bring to the process.
David Harbour
Me
Respectful
Wildly
Detail
Brothers
Attentive
Being
Process
Story
While
Bring
'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.
David Hepworth
You
Business
Made
Apps
Tell
Some
Cases
Something
Guy
Dating
Entrepreneurs
Name
Learn
Built
How
Inevitably
Selling
Stories
Story
Whether
Ask
Fortune
I did not intend for there to be an incisive historical lesson in 'North and South.' Basically, it's just a good, juicy story.
David L. Wolper
Good
Lesson
Juicy
South
Historical
North
Intend
Did
Just
Story
Basically
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
David Lagercrantz
Problem
Simple
Crime
Alcohol
Corpse
Detective
Something
River
Just
Conventional
Story
All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.
David Lagercrantz
Good
Passion
Tell
Follow
Good Story
Wanted
Story
Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.
David Leitch
You
Fight
Characters
Telling
About
Scene
Involved
Learn
Lot
Story
Little
Fight Scene
Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.
David Leitch
You
Fight
Other
Tell
Scene
Like
Very
Shooting
Any
Story
Using
Choreography
Specific
The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about.
David Levering Lewis
Business
Indeed
About
Rather
More
Know
Look
Return
Historians
Begun
Story
Migration
Ignored
Need
Phenomenon
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
David Levithan
Mind
Lost
Tell
Steal
Hear
Very
Get
Anybody
Want
Stories
Story
Much
Use
Larger
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
David Levithan
Love
You
Writing
Words
Own
Else
Would
Someone
Something
Fact
Never
Written
Bouncing
Off
Get
Story
Your
Ever
Guarantees
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.
David Liss
Love
Myself
Good
You
Hooked
TV
Good Story
Like
Know
Narrative
Always
Yeah
Comics
Up
Oh
Oh Yeah
Grew
Story
Movies
Describe
Novels
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
David Lloyd
You
Finished
Mask
Think
Has-Been
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Bad Idea
Absolutely
He
Idea
Importance
Continue
Been
Story
Forms
Then
Sequel
Who
Now
Now And Then
Thing
Raised
Vague
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
David Longstreth
Art
Somebody
Way
Dream
Andy
Andy Warhol
Marshal
Able
Something
Layered
He
Like
His
Fame
Very
Different
Realisation
Story
Warhol
Kanye
Fullest
Media
When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
David Lowery
Writing
Try
Possible
Components
Reduce
Go
Story
The only part of 'A Ghost Story' that was reactionary was a temporal one. I had spent so much time making 'Pete's Dragon' that I was really impatient and excited to make something new. When this project presented itself, I was ready to jump right into it. I started shooting two days after 'Pete's Dragon.'
David Lowery
Time
Project
Spent
Ghost
Temporal
Something
Impatient
Only
Something New
Had
Part
Excited
New
Days
Reactionary
Make
Ready
Making
Jump
Itself
Shooting
So Much Time
After
Story
Much
Really
Right
Started
Presented
Two
Dragon
Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them.
David Lowery
Me
Matters
Ghost
Favorite
Tell
Favorite Thing
Would
More
Obviously
Because
Making
Ultimately
Lot
Commercial
Than
Trying
Just
Story
Movies
Them
Satisfy
Thing
Watch
Watching
Dragon
At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.
David Lowery
Day
Safety
End Of The Day
Back
Later
Ghost
Would
Net
Case
Something
Could
Pick
Knew
Fail
Nail
Come
Safety Net
Always
Built
Line
End
Up
Movie
Story
Disney
Dragon
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
David Lynch
Me
Words
Both
Abstract
Abstraction
Well
Said
Concrete
Hold
Story
Really
Things
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
David Lynch
Time
World
Opportunity
Spend
Television
Characters
Ongoing
More
Cast
Provides
Story
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
David Lynch
People
Become
Films
Everyone
Worried
Kind
Entire
Something
More
Small
Making
Understood
Traditional
Than
Often
Stories
Happens
Story
Hollywood
Moment
Even
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
David Macaulay
Good
You
Book
People
Pay
Pay Attention
Back
Way
Good Thing
Pick
Attention
Along
Always
Up
Get
Trying
Information
Story
Which
Notion
Thing
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
David Maraniss
Me
Book
World
Will
First
Beginning
Dramatic
Launch
Carry
Arc
Weave
About
Through
Look
Reader
Am
Subject
End
Itself
Story
Themes
Illuminate
Larger
Things
Second
Two
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