I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell… — Danielle Bregoli Copy Share Image
We used to tie a skipping rope to a pitchfork and try to spear big carp. We never got one. My kids… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story. — Gale Sayers Copy Share Image
I think that's the most exciting thing, writing my own journey, my story with an organization that truly believes in me the… — Shaquill Griffin Copy Share Image
I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn't get to New York to cover the story,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
For me, the story must be the hero of the film. The screen space or the length of my role does not… — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past,… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
When Nickelodeon, in 2009, told us they wanted us to come back and do another series where we could do whatever we… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it… — Kyle Copy Share Image
“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I love this phrase called 'experiential monument.' What is an experiential monument? It's like a type of history that is experiential, that… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I've had such an incredible arc, so it made sense to me, creatively, that we've told Laurel's story. It has come to… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story. — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs. — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“If you're going to have a complicated story,' he once explained, 'you must work to a map; otherwisw you'll never make a… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. — David Simon Copy Share Image
I'm a private person. I don't want to write a book because I know the story and feel no need to tell… — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
I think everybody is allowed, especially when they're telling a story, as long as it's not based on somebody's real life, you're… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I guess my whole thing has always been that nobody knows you except for yourself and nobody knows your story except for… — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
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