“I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.” PeopleIfsRealStoriesHonestyCircumstancesSceneReal LifeGrantedCriticizeComing OutDocumentaries Author:Steven Yeun
“There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.” PeopleMenTryingHas BeensStoriesPoliticalNumbersEventsCircumstancesTerribleOrdinaryUniversalCaughtThemeMidstCaught UpOrdinary PeopleSierraSierra Leone Author:Edward Zwick
“What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances - whether that involves depicting masculine pride, or a particular kind of suffering, or love, or closeness - my primary job is to feel and to try to put that feeling into some kind of visual form. My goal is to get to the heart of each story, you know? I’m trying to evolve in my work.” KnowsFeelsTryingHeartKindStoriesFeelingsJobsFormSufferingGoalEmotionFieldsParticularPrideCircumstancesCommunicatePrimariesEvolveVisualsEmphasisMasculineCloseness Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsPlayStoriesFilmFoundInterestChanceStepsComedyDangerousProductsIndustryHeroCircumstancesHorrorOffersAnd LoveLove StoryWarriorNativeVillainNative AmericanIgnoredGrossMockeryThrillersFilm IndustryDead EndsDorkBrokenheartedMovies And LoveFound Dead Author:Misty Upham
“Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.” LongImportantBookStoriesLastsBeautifulSleepLevelsNovelPiecesWrittenMysteryCircumstancesPagesLove StoryProseGuaranteesConsiderationTragicCompellingEdenWhimSleeping InCallousNicoleThis Is A Book Author:William Kent Krueger
“I just share my story in hopes that some people out there who have gone through different circumstances might be encouraged and inspired that even in their circumstances to know that there is nothing God can't change.” PeopleKnowsDifferentStoriesMightGoneShareCircumstancesInspiredCan't ChangeBe Encouraged Author:Nick Vujicic
“History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingHardStoriesSeemsLyingCertainEasyCasesOne ThingParticularTheoryCircumstancesProveUniqueEvidenceExpertise Author:Richard Lewontin
“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.” MenWarStoriesShowsTurnsCultureStrongCausesEffectsHeroCircumstancesWeakCaughtIntenseAbstractDryRebellionTimelessPlagueCause And EffectScoundrelsChroniclesVeneerWeak Man Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.” ThinkingWayDifferentCharacterStoriesMightFormSongDifferencesMemoriesPersonalityCircumstancesPerformancesPreparationSimilarityPersonal Relationships Author:Scarlett Johansson
“If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.” IfsWritingRealStoriesFeelingsCircumstancesMereContrarySymbolsFantasticMy ThoughtsComes And Goes Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWritingHumansChildrenLongTwoStoriesAsksSpeakCausesHuman BeingsPartyGeniusCircumstancesNormalAnxietyDistanceSentencesAsk MeInterviewsNativeSubmitTelephonesPatheticDistinguishedGood StoryLong DistanceImpliedSocial AnxietyInsert Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a layered character, it's understanding the secret of that character, and so whatever comes up as "Oh, I thought that person was that," you are always carrying that within you. So actually what you're playing all the way through is both and it's just what comes out in the scene or the circumstance.” WayGivingPersonsPlayCharacterStoriesFilmUnderstandingSecretCircumstancesSceneTrainingCome UpWithin You Author:Julia Ormond
“The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.” DoneCharacterStoriesCertainOrderActorsSacrificeCircumstancesHardestMake SenseBest ThingsHardest ThingBeing Funny Author:Jonah Hill
“Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.” ThinkingWayWantDifferentEnoughStoriesChurchActingRaceCircumstancesApproachPicksBroadsDifferent Times Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.” PeopleIfsWritingYearsTwoIdeasStoriesNamesWishChurchForeverSubjectsDutyCircumstancesFairsHearingAbsurdMinistersFiftyBuyingSermonsPublishTwo Days Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.” PeopleGivingStoriesPastSimpleEffortAttitudeFocusCircumstancesAspectPatternsAttractionAccessComplainingToneOur FutureProvidingComplaintsOur PastDeliberateYour FutureYour Past Author:Esther Hicks
“I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.” StoriesCircumstances Author:Jon Weisman
“I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.” PeopleWantFeelsStoriesEnjoyDecisionStrangeCircumstancesUnderstoodLogic Author:Arthur Bradford
“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingLongBookDifferentCharacterStoriesWeekReadyCircumstancesLong TimeFinishedWriting A BookDifferent CharactersWriting StoriesOh My Gosh Author:Molly Antopol
“I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.” ThinkingGivingKindDifferentSelfCharacterStoriesWould BeActorsCircumstancesSceneEvolveDifferent CharactersQuirksSelf Indulgent Author:David Tennant
“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingStoriesFacesPurposeChallengesSituationMillionsFocusShareCircumstancesBenefitsDeserveDignityBiggerBridgesTragicFace To FaceTouristsAmplificationChallenging Situations Author:Annie Lennox
“It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.” IfsWantGivingWritingDoeHardCharacterStoriesMightRememberPurposeInterestingSituationEmotionalCircumstancesPressureDeterminePromotingAstonishingNo PointDepartureComplicationSetups Author:Monica Wood
“You need a clear, legitimate excuse for why you're behind [the bankruptcy], such as a layoff, divorce, or medical emergency. Be prepared to back up the circumstances with supporting documents. Anything you have to substantiate your story - including proof that you have, for instance, been actively looking for a new job - will help.” NeedsHelpingStoriesJobsBehindsClearCircumstancesPreparedIncludingExcuseDivorceProofMedicalInstanceDocumentsBe PreparedEmergenciesBankruptcyNew JobLayoff Author:Jean Chatzky
“At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.” WorldStoriesHomeYoungDifficultCircumstancesRaisedRedemptionYoung WomenVictimhoodDifficult Circumstances Author:Joyce Maynard
“The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.” PeopleKindStoriesBigsNew YorkMinesCircumstancesGrandmotherBig ThingsSomewhere ElsePolishMetamorphosis Author:Salman Rushdie
“After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.” PeopleSaidStoriesFeltPossibilityHairCircumstancesKissingCrossesTaxiMallsRetellingImplying Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.” ChildrenTwoStoriesNumbersDangerousOughtHabitCircumstancesCreaturesEatingBraveMonstersGhostCourageousDisgustingBeatenDisturbingLarge NumbersThirteenIngeniousRhymingTrollBe EncouragedGhost StoriesEating HabitsNastinessGazellesCoupletsGaiman Author:Neil Gaiman
“My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.” WritingStoriesFormResponsibilityCircumstancesPermanentDistractionShort Story Author:Raymond Carver
“Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.” KnowsHas BeensArtSaidCountryStoriesNamesDarkIdentityCircumstancesMereMythMysteriousWorks Of ArtThievesStolenPhantomsTrue Identity Author:Yukiru Sugisaki