#story

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#art #away #complete #cut #deliver

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#book #character #compelling #draw #drove

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? ↗

— Dick Wolf

#air #department #early #focus #focus groups

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#blocs #city #europe #ever #feature

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#accomplished #biography #comes #forebears #history

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#came #colleagues #going #how #i

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#beginning #could #end #political #political system

I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right. ↗

— Louise Woodward

#i #right #said #sell #story

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#countries #damage #great #harming #history