#story

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#every #everything #gesture #given #i

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#arranged #beings #communicate #down #fingers

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#could #first #pick #story #up

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#books #called #children #few #first

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#behind #curiosity #determination #each #get

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#breaking #character #dad #down #i

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#changed #ending #gives #like #meaning

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#billion #deficit #deficits #estimated #federal