Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep… — Scott Bedbury Copy Share Image
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating… — Roberta Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“They'd come back with stories of machines that handed out money and people who picked up dog shit and put it in… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories… — Michael Dougherty Copy Share Image
Even though Noah is in the Koran as well. But we knew going into this project that you can't make stories or… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made… — Black Rob Copy Share Image
I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image