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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
Unscramble the Blue Letters
AS: So how do you make a selfish character lkablie? We raeziled, you can make him kind, generous, funny, cdtesoiarne, as long as one ctdoionin is met for him, is that he stays the top toy. And that's what it really is, is that we all live life conditionally. We're all willing to play by the rules and flolow things along, as long as certain conditions are met. After that, all bets are off. And before I'd even decided to make storytelling my career, I can now see key things that happened in my youth that really sort of opened my eyes to certain things about story.
Open Cloze
AS: So how do you make a selfish character _______? We ________, you can make him kind, generous, funny, ___________, as long as one _________ is met for him, is that he stays the top toy. And that's what it really is, is that we all live life conditionally. We're all willing to play by the rules and ______ things along, as long as certain conditions are met. After that, all bets are off. And before I'd even decided to make storytelling my career, I can now see key things that happened in my youth that really sort of opened my eyes to certain things about story.
Solution
- follow
- realized
- condition
- likable
- considerate
Original Text
AS: So how do you make a selfish character likable? We realized, you can make him kind, generous, funny, considerate, as long as one condition is met for him, is that he stays the top toy. And that's what it really is, is that we all live life conditionally. We're all willing to play by the rules and follow things along, as long as certain conditions are met. After that, all bets are off. And before I'd even decided to make storytelling my career, I can now see key things that happened in my youth that really sort of opened my eyes to certain things about story.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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bare hands |
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stone wall |
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edgar rice |
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rice burroughs |
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ultimately led |
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story lesson |
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love story |
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Important Words
- bets
- career
- character
- condition
- conditionally
- conditions
- considerate
- decided
- eyes
- follow
- funny
- generous
- happened
- key
- kind
- life
- likable
- live
- long
- met
- opened
- play
- realized
- rules
- selfish
- sort
- stays
- story
- storytelling
- top
- toy
- youth