Sentences with phrase «getting the story just»

The actor reportedly spent a year and a half developing the script and working with Bauman to get his story just right.

I'm a writing student over in Australia, and when I'm not losing sleep over getting a story just right, I live and breathe science fiction, fantasy, and of course videogames.

Not exact matches

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

«Making new memories» such as I just told that story «is one of the things that goes when people get older, and is a sign of neurological impairment,» Michaelis said.

Have you ever experienced something cool and, in telling the story, you get so tongue - tied that you end up saying something along the lines of, «well, you just have to experience it for yourself?»

«As for the coverage, he doesn't get involved in it at all — not what stories to do or what not to do; he doesn't comment on any stories, including about Amazon, he just doesn't,» Marty Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, said Thursday at an annual dinner for Columbia University's Knight - Bagehot journalism fellowship.

You can tell your story visually and get much more attention than you would if you just wrote it out.

Great leaders do that by telling stories and painting verbal pictures so that everyone can understand not just where they're going, but what it will look and feel like when they get there.

But if you're committed to wanting to learn constantly how to be a leader and not just get stuck in your own head, around your own ideas and who you used to be, the stories you tell yourself, then I think there is really a breakout.»

Postmates got $ 141 million last October (though has yet to fully solve its notorious problem with high fees; just Google around for horror stories of $ 20 burrito deliveries).

The best way to get better press for your business is to pitch a story instead of just asking a journalist to write about your business.

There are many more fascinating stories out there about individuals who just started with something and got better as time and practice went on.

But there's been this story told of founders who are just not nice to people and that's what it takes to get ahead.

As an actor, I got frustrated with a lot of my opportunities and I wanted to tell stories that could feature me as an actor as well as just stories I believed in.

In fact, it is likely just a scary story that a frustrated Geithner wants the folks in Congress to believe in order to get them to negotiate a deal that will allow America to keep running up its credit card.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

Although highly educated founders of tech companies get a lot of attention, they're just one part of the story of immigrant entrepreneurship in America.

EASTWOOD: And so I... Just through that I got story ideas and I called up Paul Haggis and I said, you know, I can't afford you Paul as a writer but I said do you have any students?

That's a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world who go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to get the story right.»

«They're just getting wisps of the story from the big newspapers about how crazy the Toronto market is.

A more comprehensive study would have to include dozens or maybe hundreds, but I just did three — I'm just trying to make a foundation for a story, not get investor money.

«You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across — not to just depict life — or criticize it — but to actually make it alive.

It's not just disappointing that we don't get to tell the story and have that experience, but more so for that audience that has been so vocal in wanting another movie.»

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

As Lewis noted on Monday after his story was publicized, some publishers» articles on the story came emblazoned with fake ads — online publishers tend to just put empty boxes on their sites that are filled by ad networks, with the publisher getting a cut.

Video and Live on Facebook are just two of the many ways that telling a story has gotten easier and more magical (especially for sales).

But Rossetto apparently believed that he had one weapon in his arsenal that couldn't be quantified: if he and his team could just get in front of prospective investors, they could sell the Wired story.

To keep your audience engaged, you've got to involve them in your story — not just tell it to them.

I have my own side of this story, but I believe in these people that have been underrepresented getting their stories out enough that I will hold back things that I could say just because I believe in it that much.

«After the way he was treated by this president, after some of the names that this president has besmirched his reputation with, just seems in basic fairness he gets to tell his side of the story to the American public, and I hope he'll be as forthcoming as possible.»

2) the stair counter doesn't work well — gets very confused when I get on an elevator (I live on the 30th floor of my building and sometimes just taking the elevator up in the morning after a run gives me my full 10 story step goal) 3) the heart rate monitor doesn't seem particularly accurate 4) the sleep tracker doesn't do a good job of figuring out when I go to sleep and when I wake up.

«I had someone tell me a story just yesterday who is a server in a restaurant where the guest grabbed their hand in a public area and licked their hand and arm and did not get banned from the hotel.

The movie they wanted to make has undeniable power, but also the distinct sense of something missing; from Dre's relationship with his ex to his conflict with Suge Knight, it's always clear we're just getting one side of the story.

If your cause is just, or if your product is outstanding, try to get the word out there by sending your story to local news agents.

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Whether that was an attempt to make her soften or retract her story, or just a supreme example of thoughtlessness, the survey turned out to be an effective way to get a company with an entrenched «bro» culture to begin taking sexual harassment and gender discrimination more seriously.

There's just one problem; how do you get that content in front of journalists so they can reference it in their stories?

In an attempt to appease those who think Messenger is too complicated, Facebook rolled out Messenger Lite for Android in 2016, a slimmed - down version of the original app that contains just the bare necessities: users only get primary messaging features and none of the bells and whistles such as GIFs, reactions, and Stories.

Maybe a source didn't get back to me, a photo option didn't come through, or a story just didn't turn out to be as interesting as I had thought.

To get a handle on what's going on in Chinese retail, we paid a visit to Alibaba's HeMa Department story, a high - tech, cashless, and mobile - enabled store that might just revolutionize the shopping experience.

Sometimes, when you're newsjacking, it's about being first — as long as you're accurate, you just need to get a story out the door to make the most of it.

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You get the complete story you need to gain the edge — just like company A did in this case.

So why do investors continue to do just that, despite the horror stories we hear when a firm like Lehman Brothers gets into trouble?

Without one, you'll find that either you spend the whole day answering questions about the story so that a journalist has enough details to write something interesting, or it just won't get picked up because it's too much like hard work for an already busy reporter.

Some of the vocal tracks were just recorded onto the computer.For the most part, the whole thing was on four - track, giving it a scratchy feel.The new album will probably cover the whole experience of trying to get my thing off the ground, losing hope and finding hope.So, I think there will be a theme to the whole record, but it won't be as story - driven as the last one.Like in The Novelist, there's a specific «on this song this is happening, and on the next song such - and - such is happening,» along with the character building.

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

The people who you are talking to were born in the U.S just as you were, but how their ancestors got here is another story entirely.

So if you can move from that encounter on the street to sitting down in your home, you can move from sitting down in your home to hearing one another's stories, to getting involved in each other's lives, to sharing time together where you're not just helping but you're enjoying life together.

he has a very detailed chapter on your worm... I think if you read real science text books on evolution you will get the facts rather than just a rebuttal based on biblical stories.