Mixed martial arts, UFC, or what have you, I don't think it has anything to do with rankings. It doesn't have to… — B. J. Penn Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish… — Lin Shaye Copy Share Image
“It is your personal story that makes you relatable. Not assigning judgment, or pressing blame. Your story, wrapped in God, around his… — Jo Ann Fore Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII,… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“Music is my inspiration. When my brain and music come together they form something unpredictable. The songs are the talent that fuels… — Christina Casino Copy Share Image
I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
Anytime somebody shares a personal story with me during autograph signings and someone comes up to me and shakes my hand and… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service,… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that every song has to be an all-time hit or the greatest ever music. That's not what you should… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
“Cormag caught his hand and pulled him back until they were facing each other. “I think you're amazing,” he said, blurting the… — Elaine White Copy Share Image
Even when he transposes Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' he injects so much of his own personality and his own world that… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I think the goal of 'Chef's Table' is that you are so moved by the story that you want to go and… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it's the smallest things that end up making the biggest difference." Indy reached out and clasped Peter's arm. "And you're… — Marissa Burt Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
You know, when you make something in live-action, you make it real. And when you are inspired by and determined to honor… — Niki Caro 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
“A story carries the inspiration that speaks louder than a thousand words. The imagination that paints richer than a thousand brushes. The… — Alex Li Copy Share Image
It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
