Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing… — Cheri Bustos Copy Share Image
A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
“Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being.” — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears,… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade,… — Melanie Tem Copy Share Image
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles* — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
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