#story

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#fresh #fresh ideas #i #ideas #poorly

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama. ↗

— Ed Wood

#crazy #drama #dresses #girl #gonna

We are the hero of our own story. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#our #own #story

I think you can learn from history. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#i #i think #learn #think #you

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law? ↗

— Jerry Yang

#always #curious #electrical #engineer #got

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#history #i #long-standing #respecting #wishes

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#anecdotes #arrange #down #edit #full

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. ↗

— Yanni

#being #dread #emotion #get #i

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#become #bed #collapsed #crazy #depression

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? ↗

— Jim Wallis

#appointed #been #believes #careful #god