“Listen, child," Maame said. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon… — Suyi Davies Okungbowa Copy Share Image
When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel… — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song…… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those… — Mark Roth Copy Share Image
Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
I'm just worried that the technology I invented in that story ["The Pyramid and the Ass" ] will become real, and George… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether… — Pete Munro Copy Share Image
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation',… — Plato Copy Share Image
Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
In a recent interview, Jeb Bush revealed that his brother George gave him the nickname 'tortoise' because he's making slow, steady progress.… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
![“I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.” quote by Joss Whedon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31f/joss-whedon-480_chance_i-m-the-least-confident-person-in-so-man_2000188.png)
![“As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_actors_as-an-actor-to-be-part-of-that-story-s-m_1668625.jpg)
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