If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there,… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time,… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national… — Peter Kuznick Copy Share Image
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm probably the most proud of "Mrs. Potato Head," because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life… — Peter Turnley Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me,… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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