“We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.” StoriesDreamImpossibleSpecial Author:Marco Rubio
“Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.” StoriesSpecialJournalismPersecution Author:Thomas Frank
“Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the grandmother stuff, really, I feel like is part of the theme and part of the best way to end the story that I'm telling with the special.” WayFeelsEndsStoriesStuffSpecialBest WayHeyThemeGrandmotherMasturbation Author:Jen Kirkman
“Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.” KnowsStoriesKidsFilmStuffKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingSpecialEffectsDrawsCamerasBudgetsFrustrationMy SisterSpecial Effects Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.” ArtTwoStoriesTogetherFormSpecialInterpretationWorks Of ArtGreat Work Author:Itay Talgam
“As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.” KnowsPlayStoriesEnjoyLordNovelSpecialConcernedDevelopingBoredNightmarePlotCraftsmanDrawbacksSo Bored Author:E. M. Forster
“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” MayHas BeensTwoStoriesFilmThreeHoursLinesWalksVisionGraceMinutesSpecialEffectsSurpriseLove StoryAdmireOriginalityPearlsHarborsDecemberStunningSpecial EffectsTrianglesBanalityLove TriangleQuotingRedundantCenterpiecesSurprise AttacksDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Roger Ebert
“Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.” ThinkingWorldRealStoriesFormActorsEmotionAudienceSpecialHumourLoftyComedicReal Emotion Author:Jim Carrey
“Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.” WantWholeStoriesSpecialGlobesSpecial Things Author:Charles Halford
“Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.” PeopleArtStoriesTodayJesusLeaderBoysSpecialConditionsWorshipSickDelightDareInstanceFeaturesFlatsPensShort StoryBowsDispositionIdenticalUnnaturalRepresenting Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.” IfsFirstsEnoughStoriesSpecialEffectsTaughtDependsHollywoodPropsTaught UsSpecial Effects Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.'” ThinkingShouldTryingStatesStoriesNextStrongBehindsWeekSpecialDogSittingUnionsBarackAddressesNext WeekOld Yeller Author:Bill Maher