Stories Quotes - Page 34

• The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.

  Akira Toriyama

  Art, Ideas, Drawing

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• If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Artist, Editors, Let Me

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Ain't It Cool interview, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

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• VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

  Phil Vischer

  Children, Vegetables, Talking

  "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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• Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

  Phil Vischer

  Simple, College, Yale

  "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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• We each have a story to tell, I know; so let each one take his turn.

  Maud Lindsay

  Turns, Knows

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.17, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

  Maud Lindsay

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “A Story Garden for Little Children”, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Bridges, People, Doubt

  "Kurilpa Bridge". Book by Haig Beck, p. 72, 2012.

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• Sherlock and Watson are a love story

  Martin Freeman

  Love Story, Watson

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• How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Past, Thinking

  Washington Irving (2012). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moon, Land

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• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

  Barry Eisler

  Jobs, Essence, Different

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• The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, Males, Female

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• Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

  Conan O'Brien

  Long, Today, Pope

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• I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Tonight, Kevin, Want

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• This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

  Ben Okri

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

  Brené Brown

  People, Share

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• Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

  Emma Stone

  Song, Names, Musician

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Thinking, People, Share

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• The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

  Jay Leno

  News, Firsts, Remember

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• Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Directors, Gone

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• I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

  Kevin Spacey

  Imagine, Hours, Break

  "Kevin Spacey says multi-medium film releases would help beat piracy" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Media, Unhappy

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• In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.

  Mark Waid

  Cute, Couple, Book

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• There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Juan

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