I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But,… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
“Loved reading Me Before You and The Girl You Left Behind. Both stories kept me very involved with sometimes twists and turns… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I think a good story, well told is a good story, well told, whether you're watching the episodes all in a row… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
There's a - kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we… — John Heilemann Copy Share Image
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and… — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them… — Nury Vittachi Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
![“[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.” quote by Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13e/daniel-quinn-1786_becoming_t-he-price-you-ve-paid-is-not-the-price_2020203.png)
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![“First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will…” quote by Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c55/michel-hazanavicius-7804_actors_first-of-all-i-had-the-desire-for-that-f_2868154.jpg)
![“There's a - kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we thought we knew who seems to have changed in a profound way and become this much more kind of [ controversial] person .” quote by John Heilemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e5/john-heilemann-24311_campaigns_there-s-a-kind-of-an-undercurrent-of-the_564655.jpg)
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