One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
In the thousands of stories I've collected over the years there are people who just want to know that their story matters,… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency...Enabling… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems.… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
Getting to play the part of Selena was life-changing for me, i got to immerse myself in her life, got to know… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Doing action, the thing is it's cool to watch it, and as a guy I like seeing it. With the romance thing… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
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