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True story - I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it's power in your tongue.

Fantasia Barrino

LifePowerMirrorSpeakStoryYou

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Michelle Paver

FireMeStorySparkFeelYou

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Diana Krall

CharacterStorySometimesOutGet

When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.

Frank Peretti

KitchenStoryCompromiseDirection

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

LifeStoryThinkEveryoneSenseGet

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Chuck Palahniuk

TravelStoryShortEasyYouAlways

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

Tayari Jones

StartStoryLoseFeelingPlacesGet

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

Michael Connelly

PeopleReadingStoryBuildAct

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Irving Stone

VisionAmbitionWorldStoryGoal

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.

Rod Lurie

TruthTruth IsStoryDogsOwnSpin

Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.

Jay Parini

CuriosityStorySpecialWellEven

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Jimi Hendrix

LifeLoveLove IsGoodbyeEyeStory

I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

Cheyenne Jackson

MyselfStoryWatchGetCriticalToo

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

Bennett Miller

MeStoryEntertainmentMoreUpThan

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

Robert Rodriguez

GoodValueStoryThinkYouCreate

My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.

Asif Kapadia

LifeJourneyTeamStoryTalkingOwn

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

Octavia E. Butler

ScienceMeStorySomeoneBackBorn

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

Steven Spielberg

FatherVisionStorySomeoneTell

Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'

Fede Alvarez

FutureChildMeStoryYouBack

'The Lady' is an incredible love story about how a family was cut off from each other, about sacrifice, about the ability to put the needs of million of people before your own.

Michelle Yeoh

FamilyLoveSacrificePeopleStory

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

Diane Kruger

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The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

StoryDesignYouEmotionalEyebrows

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

John Green

ResponsibilityHappyMeStoryTrue

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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