We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
I've always sort of felt a little bit like I was on the road less traveled, so if I come across a… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of… — Jill Abramson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted… — Jackie Morse Kessler Copy Share Image
In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you… — Leslie Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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