“Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart,… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
A lot of times, films tell stories about the time we live in. So when making history, it´s just as important to… — Anne Sewitsky Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this… — David Gray Copy Share Image
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be… — Micol Ostow Copy Share Image
While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and… — Stefano Tonchi Copy Share Image
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the… — Steven James Copy Share Image
I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The press can't write the kind of things they write, which are lies.The stories are fabrications and false. And the only thing… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me.… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the… — Dewi Morgan Copy Share Image
The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
All these people, all these things came into my life, and theyre all blessings from God. And now that I look back,… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
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