The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky.… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own… — Brandy Purdy Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you… — Laura Berman Copy Share Image
In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics.… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless… — James Frey Copy Share Image
So,” Royce said, “you want us to escape from this prison, kidnap the king, cross the countryside with him in tow while… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to… — Common Copy Share Image
My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
With the new game I'm going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives,… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
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