In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra… — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been… — Herman Edwards Copy Share Image
We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large… — Sarah McCoy Copy Share Image
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
'Jessica Jones' is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist?… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
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I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch… — Joey Logano Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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