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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
Lasse Hallstrom
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende
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I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
Colm Meaney
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
Nic Pizzolatto
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That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.
Casey Kasem
I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
William Sleator
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I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.


Alejandro Jodorowsky
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I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.
John Legend
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My personality doesn't interest me.


Andrei A. Gromyko
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If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.


Elon Musk
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Animals interest me more than anything else.


Douglas Brinkley
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The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.


Genevieve Valentine
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.


Malcolm Gladwell
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
Kate Atkinson
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Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.


Gertrude Ederle
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What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.


Marc Forster
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.


Henri Cartier-Bresson
Tags: Me Want Only
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That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.


Robbie Robertson
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Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
Mario Balotelli
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
Geezer Butler
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