Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou Copy Share Image
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The most effective medium is yourself and the power you communicate by your intention and your story. — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a… — David Cook Copy Share Image
I dreamed of being a part of the stories—even terrifying one, even horror stories—because at least the girls in stories were alive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin',… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
so the story goes but theres something you should know before i walk away and i blow the ending i never want… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic —… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything. — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it. — Barry Davies Copy Share Image
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them. — Afia Nathaniel Copy Share Image
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
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