Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting,… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure… — Vaughn Monroe Copy Share Image
One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope… — Jamie Tworkowski Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans… — Christophe Honore Copy Share Image
Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell,… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky.… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to… — Common Copy Share Image
My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own… — Brandy Purdy Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
![“I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films ['Race' and 'Selma'] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a…” quote by Stephan James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/stephan-james-17537_ancestor_i-realize-the-importance-of-retelling-th_1510721.jpg)
![“No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.” quote by Drew Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/drew-houston-14131_billions_no-one-is-born-a-ceo-but-no-one-tells-yo_296463.jpg)
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