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This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.
Jens Lekman
Life
Sense
Think
Everyone
Make
Because
Get
Stories
Story
Interested
Depressed
Reasons
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
Jensen Ackles
Character
Me
Comedy
Action
Drama
Fine
Like
Sci-Fi
Lot
Westerns
Story
Interesting
Compelling
For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.
Jeph Loeb
Best
Character
Religion
Woman
Gender
Our
Characters
About
Marvel
Never
Looked
Terms
Truly
Any
Happens
Story
Race
Fantastic
Who
My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.
Jeremy Abbott
Perseverance
Champion
World
Fall
About
Always
Been
Up
Personal
Getting
Maybe
Story
Personal Story
Teach
Olympic
You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.
Jeremy Clarkson
News
You
People
World
Internet
Somebody
Twitter
Immediately
Out
Some
Pointless
Take
Involved
Behind
Story
Against
Organisation
Injunction
In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.
Jeremy Lin
God
Faith
Big
Control
Live
Believe
Ways
Perfect
Outside
Part
Put
Longer
Make
Understand
Were
Big Part
Orchestrated
Storm
Story
Place
Created
Such A Big Part
Many
Why
Things
People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.
Jeremy Lin
People
Only
Because
Court
Moved
Story
I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.
Jeremy Lin
Journey
Worth
My Journey
Become
Year
State
Would
More
Sharing
Know
Documentary
Felt
How
How Much
Cameras
Did
Golden
After
Bigger
Story
Little
Rookie
Much
Used
Agreed
NBA
Platform
Film
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.
Jeremy Renner
Character
People
Listening
Made
Nothing
Every
Plots
About
Shakespeare
Mythology
Over
New
Makes
Greek
Greek Mythology
Same
Just
Story
Again
Nothing New
Keep
Ever
Watching
It's a different kind of acting, this 'Law & Order' thing. They want two partners who can play off each other well and are fun to watch, but depth of character is not necessary in this job. Too much character gets in the way of the story. This is a very specific gig.
Jeremy Sisto
Character
Law
Too Much
Job
Too
Other
Way
Gig
Kind
Well
Partners
Off
Very
Gets
Different
Order
Want
Story
Different Kind
Depth
Much
Acting
Who
Fun
Each
Specific
Play
Thing
Watch
Necessary
Two
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.
Jerome Hines
Day
Song
Long
Saviour
Praising
Story
So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.
Jerry A. Webman
Seen
Big
Year
Other
Late
Markets
Would
India
Emerging
Investors
Policy
Get
Same
Trajectory
Same Story
Happened
Story
Realize
Much
Growth
Early
Started
Last
Last Year
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.
Jerry Spinelli
You
Better
Care
Important
Think
Say
Would
About
Having
Better Chance
Write
Most
Most Important Thing
Reader
Important Thing
The Most Important
Want
Story
Stand
Your
Thing
Chance
If you bring in actors right when you're breaking story, it has a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' effect.
Jes Macallan
You
Too
Kitchen
Effect
Story
Breaking
Cooks
Many
Actor
Right
Bring
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
Jesmyn Ward
Me
Writing
Men
First
Down
Paper
Ways
Those
Broke
Out
Telling
Some
Facts
Failed
Putting
Because
Spots
Making
Getting
Just
Different
Happened
Process
Story
Then
Really
Hard
Painful
Different Ways
Draft
Drafting
I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
Jesmyn Ward
Time
Book
First
Reading
Past
Characters
Collection
Follow
Through
Opening
Read
First Time
South
Stories
Loved
Story
Breathless
Multiple
Incoherent
Present
Recently
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
Jess Walter
Writing
Grace
Try
Coffee
Trouble
Sit
Saving
Saving Grace
Else
Keys
Torture
Pretty
Something
Poem
Something Else
Having
Drink
Computer
Write
Writer
Journal
Always
Block
Cup
Office
Short
Short Story
Story
While
Then
Much
Avoid
Novel
When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.
Jessalyn Gilsig
Love
Good
You
Hero
Think
Foil
Guy
Know
Always
Story
Place
Interesting
Interesting Place
Then
Good Guy
Playing
Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
Jesse Eisenberg
Character
Hero
Heroes
Own
Every
Our
Way
His
Story
Lives
Play
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
Jesse L. Martin
Winter
Rule
Plot
General
General Rule
Merchant
Clear
Tale
Venice
Because
Story
While
Straightforward
Much
Hard
Present
It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.
Jessica Abel
Me
Took
Out
Structure
How
Years
Story
Figure
Many
Compelling
If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.
Jessica Alba
You
Business
Job
College
Kids
Significant
Hated
See
Something
Struggling
Between
Doing
Go
Five
Get
Going
Just
Want
Vicious
Story
Much
Meant
Meant To Be
Actor
I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'
Jessica Chastain
Positive
Respect
World
Honor
Positive Thing
Approve
Way
Say
Would
About
Putting
Look
Being
Story
Them
Ingredients
Film
Thing
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
Jessica Jackley
Time
People
Communicate
Light
Will
Difficult
Rally
Easier
Kind
Easy
Sexy
Something
Retail
Tougher
Ventures
Around
Understand
Doing
Go
Offer
Contribute
Any
Getting
Story
Them
Product
Fun
Keep
Compelling
Things
Start-Up
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
Jessica Lange
Love
Yourself
Own
One Of The Things
About
Something
Reveal
Reveals
Personal
Story
Personal Story
Certain
Acting
Your
Things
I, in middle school, started really, really liking country music because it tells a story. It's really dramatic; I'm really dramatic. There's a lot of emotion. It was like, 'This is a perfect fit,' and I was teased mercilessly for it.
Jessica Rothe
Music
School
Country
Dramatic
Tells
Perfect
Perfect Fit
Emotion
Country Music
Like
Liking
Because
Lot
Fit
Middle
Middle School
Story
Really
Teased
Started
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