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It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
Liya Kebede
Life
You
Met
Difficult
Someone
Life Story
Never
Hand
Very
Person
Story
Really
Your
Whole
Play
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
Liya Kebede
Kind
Having
Disappear
Obsessed
Always
Loved
Story
Chance
I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.
Lizz Wright
Love
Love Songs
Tell
Songs
Very
Personal
Story
Create
Moments
I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'
Lizzie Brochere
Work
Alien
Extraordinary
Visa
Status
Ability
Horror
Got
Shoot
American
Official
Just
Story
'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
Lizzy Caplan
Men
Kind
About
Date
Reminiscent
Feels
Like
Very
Quiet
Sisters
Quieter
Story
Lives
Two
Save
The biggest part of why I am where I am today is not only because people can relate to me and my story but because I hit the road and actually saw them face to face and shook their hands.
Logic
Today
Me
People
Face
Relate
Saw
Face-To-Face
Only
Part
Road
Because
Am
Hit
Shook
Hands
Where
Biggest
Story
Them
Why
Actually
Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
Work
Love
Best
Me
You
Together
Mother
First
Love Story
Signed
Find
Atlanta
Best Work
Davis
Days
Got
Role
Cannot
Story
Billy
Copy
Thinks
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.
Lois Lowry
Good
Character
People
Debate
Will
Situation
Young
Relate
Out
Tell
Intriguing
Find
Emerge
Good Story
Always
Provoke
Discussion
Suspenseful
After
Story
Place
Which
Interesting
Young People
Them
Themes
Then
Create
Use
Teachers
Eventually
Set
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.
Lois Lowry
Me
Science
Doctor
Seriously
Chemistry
Patient
Field
Thinking
Biology
Medicine
Pleased
Intrigued
Brother
About
Became
Narrative
Always
Been
After
Story
Interested
Realized
Illness
Each
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.
Lois Lowry
Myself
Destination
Writing
Sometimes
Mind
Sense
Something
General
Only
Point
General Sense
Along
Know
Most
Make
Make Up
How
Doing
Go
Surprise
Up
Going
Where
Not Interested
Story
Interested
Prefer
Start
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
Lorrie Moore
Life
Local
Way
Penetrating
Kind
Small
Both
Layered
Revealing
Human
Story
Human Life
Deep
Specific
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
Lorrie Moore
Sad
Funny
Single
Sit
Down
Every
Funny Story
Write
Single Thing
Story
Meant
Meant To Be
Thing
Every Single Thing
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
Lorrie Moore
Experience
Think
Tool
Rather
More
Entity
Step
Reader
Witnessing
Than
Just
Want
Story
Teaching
Novel
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
Louis Malle
You
Difficult
Say
Would
Resulting
True
Perhaps
Make
Dialogue
Itself
Happen
Story
Script
Then
Working
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
Louis Malle
Work
You
Key
Will
Everything
Correct
Out
Must
Find
Like
Stick
Story
Note
Elbows
Your
We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.
Louis Theroux
Day
People
Will
Beauty
Other
Object
About
Something
Deliver
Exciting
True
Talk
Make
Proud
Amaze
Hand
Trying
Being
Story
Double
Agenda
Us
Created
Brighten
I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.
Louis Theroux
Feeling
Holding
Difficult
Approach
Back
Way
More
Feel
Like
Makes
Questions
Story
Transparent
Satisfying
Programme
Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
Louis Theroux
Animals
Enough
Danger
About
Most
Felt
Exotic
America
Did
Story
Pets
Kept
I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story.
Louis Tomlinson
Success
Love
Passion
Run
Through
Football
Town
Make
Felt
Real
Up
Personal
Grew
Story
Success Story
Reason
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Louise Brown
Book
Goodness
Perfect
Selection
Had
Studied
Bought
Wrote
Thank
Thank Goodness
Short
Fiction
Romantic
Decided
Story
Formula
Them
Then
Figured
Novels
Found
Rejected
I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right.
Louise Woodward
Think
Would
Would-Be
Along
Said
Sell
Story
Right
You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman
You
Hero
Publish
Broadcast
Broadcasting
Out
Find
Because
Expect
Report
Going
Want
Story
Newspaper
Your
Company
My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!
Luanne Rice
Family
Man
Too Much
Three
First
Too
Nun
Sullivan
Wildly
Tells
Give
Daughters
Mystery
Also
Renegade
Passionate
Artists
Different
Want
Story
While
Much
Novel
Away
Two
Designers want their clothes and their shows to be absolutely perfect, exactly as they imagined, and there is a great deal of work that goes into doing that. Some collections can tell a whole story, from the first look to the last. The way the colors and the clothes transition is very interesting.
Lucky Blue Smith
Work
Great
Great Deal
First
Clothes
Way
Tell
Collections
Exactly
Some
Perfect
Absolutely
Colors
Look
Deal
Doing
Very
Goes
Want
Story
Interesting
Transition
Whole
Shows
Designers
Last
Imagined
When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now.
Lucy Dacus
Sad
Time
Me
Heart
Solitude
Writing
Will
Thought
Finished
First
Beauty
Reading
Style
Wound
Similar
Never
Writing Style
Opened
First Time
Got
Years
Different
Gabriel
Happen
Story
Place
Again
Then
Really
Different Story
Now
Ever
My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
Lucy Deakins
Character
Me
Wonderful
Strong
Fly
Important
Too
Dramatic
Humorous
Could
Part
Messages
Boy
Were
Eric
Very
Behind
Just
Story
Script
Who
Moments
Whole
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