To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
You don't actually find a strong correlation between- top-line GDP growth and making money in the market. It- it seems like you… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The government is just you know, blowing the doors off the media. And not everywhere, and I think, this is where you… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel… — Dean Israelite Copy Share Image
You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly)… — David Albert Copy Share Image
If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
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I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his,… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
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I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's… — Robin Atkin Downes Copy Share Image
I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
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I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story,… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
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