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Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
History
Amazing
Word
Immigrants
Exceptional
Students
New
Ideas
Learn
Always
New Ideas
Continue
Been
America
Committed
Story
Land
Younger
Rooted
Should
Bold
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Helen Dunmore
You
Pour
Shape
Container
End
Trying
In The End
Story
Which
Your
Novel
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
Love
Truth
Dignity
Truth Is
Love Is
Important
Only
Glimpse
Terminal
Perhaps
Permitted
Story
Capable
Eternity
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Life
Thankful
Rest
My Life
Uncle
Would
Would-Be
Indian
Be Thankful
Could
Write
Cabin
Part
Did
Story
If I Could
Tom
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
Helen Mirren
Best
Character
Yourself
Lose
Think
Worlds
Else
Everything
Everything Else
TV
Always
Forget
Just
Story
Theater
Film
Found
Actress
Thing
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
Helen Oyeyemi
Try
Style
Write
Demands
Just
Story
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background.
Helen Oyeyemi
You
Writing
Believe
Think
Background
Kind
About
Feel
Know
Well
Identity
Sort
Still
Feminist
Been
Cultural
Subscribed
Tug
Story
Mean
Agenda
Much
Roots
Used
Now
Away
Started
Fox
'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' is a huge hit, but as far as the story of the film goes, there wasn't much to it.
Hema Malini
Huge
Hit
Goes
As Far As
Story
Far
Much
Film
Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and love and dream just like we do. That's not to say there are not a hell of a lot of problems in Africa. But there is also another side to that story.
Henning Mankell
Love
Problems
Nothing
Hell
Live
Too
Side
Everything
Say
Dream
About
He
Like
Also
Learn
Another
How
Lot
Dies
Often
Just
Africa
African
Story
Lives
No one knows the three-dimensional story of who I am. Or anyone is.
Henry Golding
Three-Dimensional
No-One
Knows
Am
Anyone
Story
Who
I've got so much respect for 'Bond.' It's such an iconic cultural behemoth. I love the whole story - Ian Fleming's stories are amazing.
Henry Golding
Love
Respect
Amazing
Got
Cultural
Stories
Story
Iconic
Much
Fleming
Whole
Bond
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Henry Louis Gates
Needs
Own
Everyone
Claim
Particular
Identified
Him
Because
Lincoln
His
American
Closely
Rewrite
Wants
Story
Satisfy
Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.
Herman Cain
Saying
Time
Made
Long
Long Time
Has-Been
Running
He
Like
Been
Perry
Trying
Just
Not Interested
Story
Interested
Race
Create
Rick
Sucking
Media
Chris
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Hilary Mantel
Remember
Reading
Critical
Also
Reader
Judging
Without
Experienced
Story
Ever
I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway.
Hilton Als
Best
Me
Looking
Think
Tell
Telling
Various
Doing
Opposed
Exist
Very
Just
Difference
Happen
Story
Anyway
Avenues
Then
Really
Fully
Thing
I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.
Hilton Als
You
Writing
Past
Believe
Borrow
Write
Emotionally
Until
Make
Without
Began
Did
Essays
Fiction
Upsetting
Form
Story
Your
Reason
Apparently
If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.
Hilton Als
Crazy
You
Own
Think
Imagination
Add
My Own
Feel
Journalistic
Towards
Freer
Like
Because
Context
Subject
Revisit
Essence
May
Just
Story
Then
Really
Assignment
I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.
Himesh Patel
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Think
Out
One Of The Things
Take
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Comfortable
Because
Doing
Up
Story
Your
Actor
Things
Zone
I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed - is sort of the backbone of 'Atlanta.'
Hiro Murai
World
Nothing
Think
Backbone
Out
Atlanta
Know
Sort
Truly
Expect
Where
Story
Create
Guaranteed
In 1969, 'Life' magazine came up to me and said they wanted to do a little story on the Hobie, and I ended up getting a six-page spread. I remember Robert Redford was on the cover, and when that magazine hit the stands, it was a whole new ballgame.
Hobart Alter
Life
Me
Remember
Magazine
New
Robert
Robert Redford
Said
Spread
Ballgame
Came
Cover
Up
Hit
Ended
Getting
Wanted
Story
Little
Stands
Whole
I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.
Holly Black
Time
First
Beginning
Changed
Back
About
Through
Massive
Because
Been
Lot
Lots
Revise
End
Times
Get
Going
Often
Story
While
Again
Things
Draft
Drafting
By The Time
I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
Holly Hunter
Me
Money
Think
Too
Beside
See
About
Cost
Seems
Point
Make
How
How Much
How Much Money
Odd
Go
Privy
Want
Movie
Story
Public
Movies
Much
Really
Actor
I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.
Holly Hunter
Work
Character
Director
Money
Sometimes
Starved
Supposed
Make
Just
Story
Decisions
Based
Play
Need
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.
Hooman Majd
You
Money
Living
Kind
See
Could
Couple
Make
Got
Making
Were
Going
Short
Stories
Short Story
Story
Published
Publishing
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace
Man
Too
Trips
Small
Like
Him
Does
Fit
Up
Shoe
Story
Fortune
Large
Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
Horst Faas
Time
Great
Adrenaline
Major
Around
Always
Being
Story
Shot
Vietnam
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