Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that… — Susan Campbell Bartoletti Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. You can't let things just happen. If you know right from wrong, and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best… — Heather Dubrow Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is,… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
“We delight in marvelous things. One proof of that is that everyone embellishes somewhat when telling a story in the assumption he… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought ,in my previous… — Jessica Clark Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Sometimes the person that is best for you is the person right under your nose. I wanted to have a girlfriend in… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
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There was a lot of dancing in '76, '78, in the '80s. A lot of dancing. The burn years. A lot of… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
