I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories.… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like,… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion...… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
The starting point is to create a qualitative understanding of market drivers. You need to get into the head of the consumer… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went to the police and told our story, our faces would be… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that… — Alex Bogusky Copy Share Image
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In… — Tobe Hooper Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think… — Isabelle Fuhrman Copy Share Image
When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror… — David Naughton Copy Share Image
I would thank God, but I don't believe in it... It's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders… — Shahad Ameen Copy Share Image
I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent… — Frida Farrell Copy Share Image
I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know… — Billy the Kid Copy Share Image
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you,… — Roger Michell Copy Share Image
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
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