#story

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#against #ask #battle #big #big country

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#coffee #exploding #human #human nature #job

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#business #comfortable #covering #demonstrated #editors

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cold #editors #expected #get #had

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#because #deep #deep way #extraordinary #hardship

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creative #film #i #images #look

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#comes #dialogue #eyes #just #mouths

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#it-s-kind-of-a-funny-story #judgement #teenagers #truth #funny