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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story. — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
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Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They… — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
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There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
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No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
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I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me… — Anna D. Shapiro Copy Share Image
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I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories… — Mike Mayhall Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
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