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I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
Deborah Eisenberg
Me
Writing
Desperation
Finished
Took
Mine
Out
Some
Had
Written
Idea
Know
Wrote
Read
Years
Friend
Story
Theater
Really
Should
Monologue
It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.
Deborah Eisenberg
Time
Me
You
Long
Long Time
Feeling
Blindly
Whatever
Way
About
Write
Takes
Towards
Piece
Call
Go
Very
Very Long Time
Just
Fiction
Story
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
Deborah Norville
Creative
Better
Find
Able
Magic
Angles
More
New
Come
Beyond
Look
Also
Obvious
Up
New Story
Story
Now
Mundane
I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.
Deborah Raney
Truth
Writing
Heroes
Girl
Enjoy
Other
Books
Find
More
Point
Point Of View
Take
Over
Male
Very
Than
Trying
Any
Often
Story
View
Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.
Deborah Tannen
Words
Assume
One Thing
Only
Daughters
Feel
Mothers
Am
Being
Story
Mean
Helpful
Many
Whole
Thing
I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.
Deborah Wiles
Music
You
Words
Dance
Paper
Those
Kids
Tell
Telling
Visual
Touch
More
Adult
Students
Learners
Always
Am
Than
Just
Story
Storytelling
Us
Much
Paint
Who
Need
I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
Deborah Wiles
Important
Own
Young
Tell
Know
Most
Most Important Thing
Readers
Important Thing
The Most Important
Want
Story
Ever
Thing
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
Deborah Wiles
History
Become
Live
Our
Very
Often
Story
Which
Realize
Moments
I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.
Debra Granik
Character
Me
You
Think
Considerably
Out
One Thing
See
Seeing
Taken
Concern
Always
Role
Story
Personally
Then
Thing
I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story.
Debra Granik
Me
Immersed
See
Scenes
Day-To-Day
Caught
Up
Very
Get
Unfold
Story
Larger
Harder
Filming
I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.
Dede Gardner
Love
Me
Business
Degree
Love Story
Seemed
Know
Always
Got
Child
Movie
Wanted
Loved
Movie Business
Decided
Story
Movies
Really
Meant
English
Film
Film Business
Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.
Dede Gardner
People
Seen
Tell
Times
Story
Interesting
Why
As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.
Dee Rees
Best
You
Trust
People
Will
Long
Possible
Tell
Able
Story
Connect
When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.
Deepika Padukone
Time
Me
Long
Finished
Long Time
Cocktail
Films
Took
Out
Reconnect
Some
Similar
Had
Demand
Am
Veronica
Very
Very Long Time
Get
Behaviour
Story
Who
Zone
'Sordid' is rather unique. That's why so many gay fans are comfortable to share 'Sordid Lives' with their families. It's not really a gay story. It's just much more a family story that happens to have gay members, which most people do.
Del Shores
Family
Gay
People
Fans
Members
Rather
More
Share
Most
Sordid
Comfortable
Families
Just
Happens
Story
Which
Much
Really
Many
Unique
Why
Lives
When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.
Delilah
Me
Phone
Telling
Someone
Soundtrack
Hearing
Goes
Story
After we air the call, it's gone. I always thought, 'What a waste.' That's such a powerful story, and there's no way to revisit it or share it.
Delilah
Thought
Gone
Air
Way
Share
Powerful
Call
Always
Revisit
After
Story
Waste
As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.
Demian Bichir
Love
Great
You
Will
Think
Everyone
Peers
Respond
See
Know
Well
Got
Material
Audiences
Pray
Front
Moved
Story
Working
Your
Actor
Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
Denise Mina
Work
Faith
Job
Enough
Allow
Comics
Text
Artists
Story
Them
Hard
Illustrative
Images
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
Dennis Farina
Wayne
Kid
John
About
John Wayne
Cagney
Know
Because
Go
Going
Movie
Anything
Story
Movies
Bogart
Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.
Dennis Franz
Change
Opportunities
Big
Year
Changes
Characters
Able
Given
Taken
Since
New
Big Change
Been
Lines
New Opportunities
Left
Different
Story
Different Characters
Place
Story Lines
Us
Nicely
Adapt
I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.
Dennis Haysbert
You
School
Luxury
Stage
Live
Live Audience
Back
Broadway
Definitely
Television
High
High School
Something
Studied
Exciting
Since
Involved
Course
Became
Altogether
Audience
Got
Still
Very
Get
Front
Being
Different
Wanted
Story
Theater
Movies
Then
Different Story
Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.
Dennis Muren
Together
People
Will
Important
Changes
About
More
He
Involve
Know
Most
Knowing
Steven
Make
Knows
Lot
Than
Wants
Curve
Story
Far
Worked
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
Dennis Quaid
You
Will
Be True
Invent
Picture
Build
Everything
Tabloids
Take
True
Know
Around
May
Story
Element
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.
Dennis Quaid
Best
Good
Soul
Those
Unbelievably
Good Story
True
Look
Stories
Story
You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
Dermot Mulroney
Family
You
Conflict
Think
Tree
About
Kitchen
Kitchen Sink
Attack
Throw
Poke
Like
Know
Sink
Movie
Anything
Story
Either
Fun
Even
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