I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
In the end, the truth always wins out. It always does, no matter how many times you tell a story that isn't… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the… — Trae tha Truth Copy Share Image
Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story.… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing… — Charlie McDermott Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from… — Priscilla Presley Copy Share Image
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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