Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I don't ever approach anything from the issue first, so I can't tell you that I've thought about tackling universal health care.… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity.… — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
“The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
Eight years of doing 'Mannix' meant getting up at 5:30 and not getting home until 8 or 9 in the evening. Lunches… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else.… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into… — Rachel Hurd-Wood Copy Share Image
I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking… — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an… — Nancy Mellon Copy Share Image
'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
'Working Class Man' is my second memoir and is a continuation of my story from where 'Working Class Boy' left off. The… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
“Creatures of the Darkness BY VICKI JORDAN It was world of vampires and demons, where innocence was rare and so were the… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
When I thought of writing for Rajini sir, I told myself it will be a really cool character with a very happy-go-lucky… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I always thought that a film about how my father's life was shaped in his early years in Hong Kong would be… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have… — Arden Cho Copy Share Image
With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story.… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image