Today’s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God’s objection. They believed that… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive… — Tom Verducci Copy Share Image
I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data… — Marjorie Scardino Copy Share Image
Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
You can't actually hire and fire people inside of an open source community. Which means that getting people to work together is… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“A casket full of stories I present From the ocean of my feelings and its mood Some bring with it a tempest… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically,… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
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