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
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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
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
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
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
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as… — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
(Human) beings, in Pagan times would kind of like, listen to the stories and, they could kind of, identify - . They… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't… — Boy George Copy Share Image
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have… — Gene Wolfe 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
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
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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
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention… — John Hench Copy Share Image
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles Copy Share Image
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
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The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters… — Molly Antopol 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
From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable… — Jim Lee 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
I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices,… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
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