4161 Story Quotes for You to Enjoy

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. Jeffrey Jones

Work Myself Job Benefit Draw Characters Attention Make Within Story Help Whole Function Thing

I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one. Jeffrey Thomas

Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts. Jeffrey Toobin

Conservative Focus Diversity Rich Presidency Took Indeed Complex Obama More Could Hazy Beyond Metaphor Courts His Years Office Intense Influence After Story Serve

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs. Jennifer Beals

I pick different projects for different reasons. Usually, it's a combination of things. I admire the director, and I am interested in working with the director. Or, it's the cast. I can be moved by the story. The ideal situation is you love the director and you love the cast. Jennifer Connelly

Love You Director Situation Projects Admire Cast Pick Ideal Combination Am Moved Different Story Interested Working Different Reasons Reasons Things

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. Jennifer Gilmore

Needs You Will Before Say Out Physical About Mental Adoption Mental Illness Lay Open Know Make Deal Anybody Story Race Choices Special Special Needs Illness Amount

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not. Jennifer Lynch

Love Otherwise Would Someone Something How Discuss Story Help

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed. Jennifer McMahon

Good Character Heart Conflict Problem Remember Every Changed Shape Make Leaving Forever Going Story Whether Your Internal Her External

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire. Jennifer Nettles

Life Art Woman Every Think Lynn Back Way Cite Admire Able Something Through Openly She Always Go Very Authenticity Going Being Story Used Capture Expression Her