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Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.
Gus Kenworthy
Gay
Out
Magazine
Magazine Cover
Someone
Had
Like
Coming
Cover
Anything
Story
Which
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
Gus Van Sant
You
Car
Having
Like
Saga
Trajectory
Any
Getting
Unfolding
Story
Gas
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
Gus Van Sant
Environment
React
Coming
Up
Trying
Story
Then
Actor
Triple D is all about three things: Food, story and character.
Guy Fieri
Food
Character
Three
Triple
About
Story
Things
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
Guy Pearce
Enjoy
Find
Well
Story
Movies
Engage
Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.
Guy Pearce
Time
Character
You
Director
Every
Every Time
Say
Location
Percentage
Yes
Story
Etc
Certain
Your
Film
When you play guest parts, you play your story in a very urgent kind of way.
Gwilym Lee
You
Guest
Way
Kind
Parts
Very
Story
Urgent
Your
Play
To write a story is to create a world of your own.
Gza
World
Own
Write
Story
Create
Your
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
H. P. Lovecraft
Great
Picture
Action
Type
Indeed
Mood
Atmosphere
Vivid
Weird
Wonder
Human
Fiction
Story
Certain
Ever
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
H. P. Lovecraft
Change
Design
Too
Fluently
Out
Plot
Critically
Rapidly
Following
Seems
Previous
Write
Never
Developing
Bound
Any
Whenever
Being
Process
Story
Incidents
Second
Suggest
It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
H. P. Lovecraft
First
Carefully
Once
Plot
Has-Been
Paragraph
Would
Write
Always
Been
His
Story
Should
Prepared
Novice
Last
If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.
H. W. Brands
Good
Draws
Good Story
Readers
Story
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was out of office, he would do things to draw attention. But when you are president, you don't need to shout. When you are in office, you are the story.
H. W. Brands
You
President
Draw
Out
Would
He
Attention
Office
Story
Roosevelt
Theodore
Theodore Roosevelt
Shout
Things
Need
Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.
H. W. Brands
Work
History
Argument
Every
Give
More
Write
Attention
Emphasize
Combination
Longer
Come
Come And Go
Narrative
Go
Story
Less
When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply because you want to make it a good story. When do you introduce your characters? When do you put them onstage, when do you take them off the stage? How do you weave the different threads of the narrative together?
H. W. Brands
Good
You
Together
Style
Stage
Tell
Characters
Introduce
Threads
Weave
Structure
Imperative
Good Story
Onstage
Take
Put
Simply
Make
Because
Narrative
How
Off
Different
Want
Story
Pacing
Them
Your
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense.
H. W. Brands
Me
History
Revolution
Thomas
Took
Way
Ways
Though
Out
Some
Seemed
Write
He
Taken
Tense
French
Read
French Revolution
How
Years
Years Ago
Effect
Very
Achieved
Middle
Story
While
Figure
Right
Things
Present
Present Tense
There's always something personal, no matter how big or small the story is.
Haaz Sleiman
Matter
Big
Something
Small
Always
How
Personal
Story
I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
Hailee Steinfeld
Chemistry
Characters
Feel
Between
Juliet
Story
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Certain
Certain Level
Believable
Level
Two
A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.
Hakan Nesser
Time
Good
You
Travel
Matter
Borders
Good Story
Hits
Where
Story
I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
Hakan Nesser
Life
Death
Good
Book
Problem
Crime
First
Think
Too
Late
Late Bloomer
Out
Bad
Life And Death
Only
Could
Had
Genre
Deals
Questions
Bloomer
Stories
Story
Many
Novel
Fundamental
Fundamental Questions
Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every night from beginning to end.
Hale Appleman
Work
You
Beast
Beginning
Stage
Every
Out
Tell
Week
New
End
Than
New Story
Shooting
Same
Same Story
Where
Different
Order
Story
Fundamentally
Every Night
Night
Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
Haley Bennett
Character
Reflect
Bone
Tell
Always
Brand
Authenticity
Story
Rag
Images
With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
Haley Joel Osment
Communication
Made
Sense
About
Horror
How
Huge
Huge Difference
Discussed
Sixth
Sixth Sense
Difference
Story
Much
Dad
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
Hall Caine
Life
Beautiful
Most Beautiful
Church
My Life
Our
Out
Must
Most
Lord
Begins
Story
Depths
Incidents
Services
Bring
What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
Halle Berry
Love
Me
Black
Love Story
Say
High-Profile
No Reason
Part
Halle
Go
Male
Oh
Just
Want
Story
Swallow
Really
Reason
Star
They Say
Play
Hardest
I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.
Hallgrimur Helgason
Important
Style
Kind
Writer
Just
Being
Story
Who
Thinks
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