#story

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#i #i love #kids #know #love

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #different #done #fat #good

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#encouraged #more #over #own #pitch

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#care #down #entirely #i #lush

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#back #come #great #history #long

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cheap #course #greatest #had #history

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside. ↗

— James Daly

#awake #ideas #job #lie #midnight

In between trash and treasure. ↗

— Raditya Dika

#love-story #reality #love

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story. ↗

— Bill Condon

#been #bennett #cast #change #ensemble

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#engine #filmmaker #got #love #order