You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well,… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson learned from 'X-Men: The Last Stand' or 'X3' was that if you are going to tell a Phoenix story,… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim and their work together. They have such a depth to the… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
We often know only one version of the story... the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to… — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Obviously, Robbie Lawler isn't called ruthless for nothing; he's really earned his keep and has a crazy comeback story, probably the best… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ in a stable born, but he is not there anymore. Sometimes we are… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it. — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I think with 'Tangerine' we were taking that gamble - it was a risk - that we could tell the story in… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey the rules of progression… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to… — Ted Demme Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“And that’s just the way it is.....eventually, we all become chapters in somebody’s story, even the briefest of encounters give them something… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground. — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
My very first story, I was around 5, and I really just wrote myself. When I was 5, I loved myself so… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Mariah Carey has a gorgeous, high, high voice. She can hit those notes and she lets people hear them. It's that generation… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
So the fact that a lot of straight men have gone on to play iconic gay roles and to be lauded for… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell… — Tammy Blanchard Copy Share Image
I revisit stories and see if they are still living and breathing, because if you do a film you live with that… — Sudha Kongara Copy Share Image
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Living out a story eight times a week is difficult and draining emotionally but very fulfilling. — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
