Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do -… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three… — Kurt Browning Copy Share Image
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories.… — John Fairchild Copy Share Image
I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
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I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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