As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not,… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where… — Clive Standen Copy Share Image
Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try… — Steve James Copy Share Image
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story… — John Granger Copy Share Image
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers,… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story'… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would… — Steve Saint Copy Share Image
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories,… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
“The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
![“Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict…” quote by Adam Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/adam-johnson-7721_being-wise_where-we-are-from-s-tories-are-factual-i_1266257.png)
![“Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I…” quote by Misty Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/misty-copeland-2012_ballerina_some-people-even-think-that-i-m-still-ju_2708495.png)
![“My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.” quote by Henry Louis Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/henry-louis-gates-2372_african-american_my-producers-and-i-worked-with-these-con_1875237.jpg)
![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.png)
