#story

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#get #important #into #me #music

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier. ↗

— Joe Murray

#assuming #banana #bananas #because #cheese

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested. ↗

— David Naughton

#bad #character #films #go #good

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#basically #culture #down #ebb #every

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. ↗

— R. Kelly

#gotta #honest #life #life story #story

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#art #art history #enormous #going #had

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#culture #encountered #going #history #hostile

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee. ↗

— George Nethercutt

#committee #history #i #make #serve