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Stories Quotes by Roger Ebert
- One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the…
- How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible…
- When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet…
- Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
- Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and…
- Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you…
- Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball
- Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng
- Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;… — Annie Besant
- In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel
- I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin