What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I have read and heard so many stories from people all around the world describing how they've found their own reason to… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story.… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we… — David Loy Copy Share Image
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can… — Anthony Hemingway Copy Share Image
We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m… — Doris Salcedo Copy Share Image
One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but… — Darrell Bock Copy Share Image
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough,… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it don’t… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally… — Scoot McNairy Copy Share Image
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image