Stories Quotes - Page 77

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Leaders use story to author the future.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.