Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist.… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
“People see stories everywhere,” Regine says. “That’s what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and… — Candace Fleming Copy Share Image
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils;… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes… — Yuen Woo-ping Copy Share Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I… — Prince William Copy Share Image
Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they… — Rosemary Ellen Guiley Copy Share Image
Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe… — Alexandre Aja Copy Share Image
I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be… — Naya Rivera Copy Share Image