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Related It doesn't matter if it's aliens or emotional weapons or whatever - it's still a real st... MARGARET STOHL 'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure a... KATEE SACKHOFF A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. S... ANDY WEIR Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. I... RANDY ALCORN It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I w... HAROLD RAMIS Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story th... TOM HIDDLESTON An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,... DENIS LEARY If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a ... EVANGELINE LILLY You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next... DAN MILLMAN When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious. IMTIAZ ALI When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form... CARLTON CUSE When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to sto... GERALDINE BROOKS You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's ... PATRICK WARBURTON Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themse... ELISE ANDREW The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn... PETER MAXWELL DAVIES A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which ... JAMAIS CASCIO One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are fun... GLENN HOWERTON We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room. NICOLAS ROEG Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if i... PHILIP SCHULTZ If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a... COLUM MCCANN Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a co... JOHN YARMUTH If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction w... LORRIE MOORE That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole... EMMA DONOGHUE I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do th... BRIE LARSON In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man ... ROBERTO ORCI It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. STEVEN WRIGHT When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn... BYRON KATIE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle ... L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a w... ALAN ZWEIBEL I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or th... NICK NOLTE The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to ... TREY GOWDY I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru... NOAH HAWLEY Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha... THE EDGE It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in. DAVID A. ADLER In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... GEORGE HARRISON I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw ... DREW ROY You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it does... WILL SELF But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. DAN SAVAGE When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sens... JACKIE EARLE HALEY It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would muc... TERRY PRATCHETT It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something ab... AARON STANFORD When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or ro... ROBERT REDFORD While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too man... GABOUREY SIDIBE Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad ... CHARLES BARKLEY You can either hope and pray you don't get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself... JAMES CORDEN The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about... OPRAH WINFREY I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dul... DANIEL HANDLER If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes... RUSSELL SMITH People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff does... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it ... JESSICA LANGE If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an... CAROLINE B. COONEY See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff... EVAN DANDO What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me i... BRYCE COURTENAY You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... HARRY STYLES I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go t... AL MICHAELS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life. ANNE HATHAWAY Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'... WENDY DAVIS Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yours... BERNHARD GOETZ Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. VERNON HOWARD The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. RUTH RENDELL When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo... D. A. PENNEBAKER The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't... PAUL GREENGRASS That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'... ELENA DELLE DONNE When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of che... CHELLIE PINGREE Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging my... MARIA SEMPLE You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can'... DERMOT MULRONEY If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'... MARY GARDEN I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does... MARGUERITE YOUNG I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story,... ALAN ALDA Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life it... KENNETH R. MILLER I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and charact... ERIC BROWN This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people c... R. A. SALVATORE If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what ... LARRY PAGE Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. ... ADAM ANT We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any othe... WILLIE NELSON A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn... BEN KATCHOR If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling th... MICHAEL SHANNON History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of p... C. S. LEWIS There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger ... BERNIE MAC There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can... LEROY NEIMAN Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you... RICHARD LAMM There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho... AARON SORKIN People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, ... MARJANE SATRAPI When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share somethin... ETGAR KERET It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those... JAMES FRANCO I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being... RYAN GOSLING Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind t... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're ... JOHN ZORN I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that th... JON FAVREAU My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I... RALPH LAUREN
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It is somehow in their temperament, in the... N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ... N. SCOTT MOMADAY Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth. N. ROBERT HAMMER Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvena... N. ROBERT HAMMER We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party ana... N. ROBERT HAMMER There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is... N. ROBERT HAMMER One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time. N. ROBERT HAMMER The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control. N. ROBERT HAMMER I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan... N. 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WILSON If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at... A. N. WILSON Truth comes to us mediated by human love. A. N. WILSON It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,... A. N. WILSON If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ... A. N. WILSON