I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Hearing about something a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets… you will find me and Morpheus,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I… — David Slade Copy Share Image
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
“The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Is it always the same story, then? Somebody loves and somebody doesn't, or loves less, or loves someone else. Or someone is… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.” — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
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