If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's… — Gurney Norman Copy Share Image
People are interested in things not necessarily covered by the mainstream media, so they download things online. The categories are growing because… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this… — Sachin H. Jain Copy Share Image
To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The opportunity to be able to tell stories to a massive audience is really incredible and this job couldn't be more satisfying.… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I talk to people and show 'em how to solve their problems and stop sitting around and complaining. So I just give… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling… — Shari Wiedmann Copy Share Image
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Some stories feel like they need more time or less time to tell. To not obsessively have to trim or add that… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
And so, however many people watch this thing, that's how many different opinions there will be about it. But I don't feel… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
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