Good Story Quotes - Page 11

• I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

  Jim Shepard

  Emotional, Imagination, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

  Valerie June

  Song, Nice, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

  Mac Barnett

  Essentials, Stories, Pranks

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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• That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Stories, Realizing, Disappointing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.

  Leni Zumas

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".

  Owen Wilson

  Real, Interesting, Shining

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

  JD Era

  Honesty, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

  Adam Johnson

  Stories, Inevitable, Familiar

  "The Call For Collaboration" by Adam Johnson, therumpus.net. March 3, 2009.

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• You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

  Thomas Jane

  People, Stories, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.

  John Leguizamo

  Character, Play, Example

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

  Leanne Pooley

  Mind, Fiction, Stories

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, September 6, 2013.

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• Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

  Lena Waithe

  Stories, Firsts, Telling The Truth

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Phones, Stories, Paper

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• I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Heart, Cutting

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• Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

  Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Stories, Telling The Truth, Spoil

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• As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

  Lin Shaye

  Real, Opportunity, Stories

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• There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Feel Good, Stories

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Character, Personality

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• I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

  Shari Wiedmann

  Tired, Thinking, People

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.

  Teryl Rothery

  People, Laughing, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• (I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.

  Drew Waters

  Struggle, People, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.

  Drew Waters

  Sex, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

  Patrick Wilson

  Reality, Long, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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