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“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.”

Writing Real Stories School Culture Team Football Bears Involved High School Magazines Football Team Pariahs

Author:Tom Perrotta

“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.”

Stories Would Be Desire Groups Involved Paid Ensemble

Author:Brendan Fraser

“The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.”

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Author:Jason Gann

“I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.”

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Author:Jan de Bont

“Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.”

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Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.”

People Persons Stories Jobs Effort Written Team Design Products Development Involved Finals Credit Release Print Contributing Motion Pictures Printer Team Effort

Author:Walt Disney

“Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.”

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Author:Zack Snyder

“Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.”

World Littles Stories Kids Winning Team Involved Prove Beats Yeah Series Math Uplifting Beach California League Japan Congratulations Math And Science World Series Little League Huntington Beach

Author:Jay Leno

“I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.”

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Author:Nipsey Hussle

“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?”

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Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.”

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Author:Ringo Starr