While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club… — Joe Kinnear Copy Share Image
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times… — Ashley Mae Hoiland Copy Share Image
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell… — Bruce Bruce Copy Share Image
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
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![“When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most…” quote by Pharrell Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/903/pharrell-williams-2306_air_when-you-start-trying-to-figure-out-what_2684333.jpg)
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