I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
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I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
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I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that… — Rob Zerban Copy Share Image
Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.… — Willy Ley Copy Share Image
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
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Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ...… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
For me, I think it's such an important thing to hear other people's stories, because you do find ways that either you… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
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. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic,… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
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Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of… — Hal Turner Copy Share Image
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
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