We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories... They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection.… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood,… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
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