For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the… — Tom Cavanagh Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Long before I realized I was exploring something, that I was looking to develop something in myself, I was just naturally drawn… — Barnet Bain Copy Share Image
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I test the movies a lot, and if the audience says they love the movie, we know we're on the right track.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a misconception, but I often get asked why I always make stories about family and love. Over… — Anne Sewitsky Copy Share Image
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious.… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the… — Terry Eastland Copy Share Image
Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor,… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or… — Lindy Booth Copy Share Image
There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories,… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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