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When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
Hank Azaria
You
Sometimes
Every
Mimic
Everyone
Some
Pretty
Tale
Comedian
Authority
Authority Figures
Story
Which
Much
Really
Figures
Original
Appreciate
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
Hannah Kent
First
Student
Exchange
Heard
North
Story
Iceland
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
Hannah Kent
Me
Words
Responsibility
Tell
Dream
Would
Dreaming
Finish
Drifting
Point
Crucial
He
Open-Ended
Call
Always
Leave
Bedtime
Off
Stories
Story
Them
Then
Used
Dad
Sleep
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
Hannah Murray
Women
Somebody
Daughter
Young
Characters
Three-Dimensional
Girlfriend
Rather
Main
Particularly
Female
Accessories
Than
Roles
Just
Being
Story
Young Women
Many
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Hanya Yanagihara
Politics
College
Example
Tempest
About
Colonization
Hawaii
Write
For Example
Identity
Read
Always
How
Wanted
Story
Height
Right
Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
Harold Ramis
People
Everybody
Out
He
Just
Story
Bill
Bill Murray
Figure
Reasons
I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.
Harold Ramis
Great
Thought
Paradise
Club
Setting
Everything
Would
John
Except
Remake
Wrote
Lined
Up
Story
Bill
Bill Murray
Cool
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle
Tells
Angles
Opera
Contradictions
Different
Different Angles
Story
Many
I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
Harry Knowles
Tired
Half
Past
Interviews
Hundreds
Out
Over
Wrote
Half Years
Because
Doing
Years
Six
Being
Story
Hollywood
Speaks
Cool
Third
'The Night Watch' is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are.
Harry Treadaway
Beautiful
You
About
Dealing
Story
Pains
Watch
Night
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
Hart Bochner
Work
Best
Drive
Half
Other
Best Work
Scene
Overall
Because
Narrative
Editorial
End
Up
Very
Going
Often
Just
Screen
Ends
Process
Story
Anyway
Room
Cut
Cutting
Cutting Room
Your
Certainly
Actor
Floor
Need
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.
Haruki Murakami
Good
Me
Happy
Strange
People
World
Complicated
Dark
Reading
Books
Tell
Inside
Finish
Feel
Know
Because
Were
Story
While
Many
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
Me
People
Some People
Matters
Imagination
Way
Some
Know
Make
Call
Make Up
Because
How
Up
Just
Want
Fiction
Story
Express
Watching
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki Murakami
Wait
Write
Come
Any
Just
Story
Plan
Start
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
Harvey Fierstein
Heart
Resonate
Way
Plot
About
Ideas
Heavy
Story
Theater
Movies
Your
Even
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
Harvey Keitel
Me
Man
Conflict
School
Cause
Father
Bad Things
Bad
Lieutenant
Detectives
About
Parochial
He
Himself
Doing
Been
Very
Trying
Children
Story
Fascinating
Right
Things
Four
Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
Harvey Keitel
Old
Out
Financing
Had
Know
Fell
Well
Making
Am
Least
Doing
Effort
Get
Done
Story
Whether
Place
Old Story
Moment
Film
Actually
All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
Harvey Milk
Me
Gay
Job
Country
Reading
About
Over
Doing
His
Person
Just
Being
Center
Story
Who
You can hear my opinion on various subjects, but telling my story is the most authentic thing I can do. There's nothing more powerful I can share with an audience.
Hasan Minhaj
You
Nothing
Telling
More
Various
Share
Powerful
Most
Opinion
Audience
Hear
Subjects
Authentic
Story
Thing
The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually happen every day in our backyards and in our communities.
Hasan Minhaj
Love
Day
Me
Every Day
King
Every
Our
Telling
About
Falling
Falling In Love
Happen
Happened
Story
Communities
Homecoming
Actually
Things
Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.
Hasan Minhaj
Add
Our
How
Question
Pryor
Laid
Story
Richard
Us
Richard Pryor
Groundwork
On 'The Daily Show,' we get so caught up in the day-to-day news cycle. A story breaks, and then the piranhas in late night, we all jump to the headline, and we dissect it, and then we have to move on to the next day.
Hasan Minhaj
Day
News
Daily
Move On
Late
Late-Night
Day-To-Day
Headline
Caught
Up
Jump
Get
Move
Story
Breaks
Then
Next
Cycle
Show
Daily Show
Night
Dissect
Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is.
Haskell Wexler
Judge
Cinema
Cinematography
Well
Integrate
Just
Story
Interest
Should
Professional
Enhance
Serve
In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.
Heather Graham
Life
Love
Me
Director
Creativity
Inspire
Own
Way
Tell
Would
Direct
My Own
Could
Take
Written
Idea
Does
Becoming
Where
Want
Story
Scripts
With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters.
Heather Graham Pozzessere
Day
You
Every Day
People
Half
Research
Every
Meet
Out
Characters
Easy
Concentrate
Contemporaries
Front
Story
Them
Fun
Wholly
Right
I told my whole life story in my book.
Heather Mills
Life
Book
Life Story
Story
Whole
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