I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.
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Related Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to... ANITA SHREVE I enjoyed both equally, but in different ways, ... Maynard gave me the chance to do wonderful word c... BOB DENVER when i meet someone new they tell me that im crazy or that i need personal and that im the weirdest ... DALLY SALAD I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nin... CARLY FIORINA Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive sto... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE It was probably because of the fact that we made it so far in the tournament. It gave coaches a chan... BRANDON MOSS This, ... is the place that gave birth to me and gave me the chance to become the player I was. BUSCH STADIUM Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well?... ANN TAYLOR Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it... ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back. MANUTE BOL As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person... RUTHIE ANN MILES I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. The... DAISY FUENTES There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost th... PETRA NEMCOVA Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their anc... KATHY REICHS The reason I am single is that I gave my all to people who are not giving me a chance. DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Tell me your story and I will get back your life. STEPHEN RICHARDS All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew. BIDZINA IVANISHVILI If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r... IRA GLASS My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. JIM VALVANO My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. ... KATHY IRELAND I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport ... DANIEL CORMIER If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that'... SHANE MCANALLY I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair c... HILLARY CLINTON Increasingly, I realized that I could not merely tell his story. Rather, I would have to tell my sto... RONALD STEEL There is no doubt that no amount of marketing or recruitment or success gives us a chance to tell ou... ANDREW FLAGEL When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that ... RENEE AHDIEH It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspe... LANCE ARMSTRONG In the locker room, they would tell me, 'Go get me a jock strap in the back room' or something, ... ... SHAWN SPRINGS I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear... ISABEL ALLENDE I Feel like a prison holding myself, bounded by the judgements of people I care and chained by the r... AKSHAY VASU I thought we gave up too many lay-ups and didn't protect the bucket very well. On a positive note, w... JANA KILLEN He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS I have this old Polo jacket. I've got to bring it wherever I go. And I have this one cape that s... TRAVIS SCOTT Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not... WERNER HERZOG Are you a concerned person? Let me tell you, I am. There are many today who continuously use the lin... APURVA GAGLANI I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa... SOPHIE MARCEAU I only hoped they would take a chance and see me. I thought if I could get into the room and tackle ... JENNIFER FINNIGAN I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance ... KENDALL JENNER He gave me an opportunity when everybody turned their back on me. He gave me a chance to come to sch... CARON BUTLER When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotion... JERRY B. JENKINS I gave him a chance to hammer me on the Michigan State loss, which he did very well. He reminded me ... CHARLIE WEIS Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very... ARMAND ASSANTE I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of peop... MAXINE WATERS Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. ALEXIS ARGUELLO I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I've kind of learned this about Joss Whedon. Never say never. I've learned that. I also have... NATHAN FILLION In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not re... CARL ICAHN I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story. CARSON KRESSLEY I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be ... ALICIA KEYS I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is bor... CHERYL STRAYED I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand).... STEVIE SMITH We want to give him every chance to tell his side of the story. GLENDA WINDERS I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attent... JOHN HENCH But the story to me today is that the guy I really believe was the best anchorman ever born died muc... AARON BROWN To be a person is to have a story to tell. ISAK DINESEN I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story. SAMUEL GOLDWYN He was so well behaved back in the day. He was one of the few crew members we could count on. There ... JEFF LABAR It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story... MARGUERITE THOMAS I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. OLIVER NORTH Change was a constant in Walt Disney’s commitment to tell a story well, to bring it to an audience... NEWTON LEE Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if y... KAGE BAKER I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, becau... TAYLOR SWIFT Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s... ED PASTOR When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the scrip... DAVID TENNANT He gave me a stack of batting gloves. He said, 'Mike, if you need anything, you let me know.' I woul... MIKE AVILES I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me. LESLI LINKA GLATTER I say, “Talk to me. Tell me who you are, what you want, what you’ve never had, the story you’v... DOROTHY ALLISON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. When you hear a person give a presentation about a stock, he's telling you a story, ... What fascina... FRANK GANNON The mirror image of suffering is the truth. Try it. Change the story. Change the course of your enti... MARTHA N. BECK I think it speaks to the greatness of the man that he truly gave me the gift of allowing me to tell ... TAYLOR HACKFORD For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing... TAYLOR SWIFT Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ... CARL SAGAN Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ... DR. CARL SAGAN The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, alw... RUTA SEPETYS My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw oni... ALICE DREGER one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life…never gave me a chance to be soft. ANN AGUIRRE Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. '... ALLY CONDIE Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me ... JOE SHUSTER When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what... DON LARSEN I played golf every day of my life nearly until a few years ago, except Sundays, and I gave it up. I... BILLY GRAHAM I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r... KEANU REEVES It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really ha... ARMAND ASSANTE Well, the thought came to me that, for many of us who did this show, and for many people who watched... DOC SEVERINSEN I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell. ARMAND ASSANTE Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears w... REBECCA SOLNIT Original Poems for Infant Minds My Mother Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some prett... ANON. Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story. NICO J. GENES If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that wou... CHRISTINE KEELER It was taking a chance. I'm probably the last person I would ever think would do this. KATHY MITCHELL If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. PETE ROSE If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer... DOROTHY ALLISON He was always the life of the party. The manner in which he would tell a story with that strong sout... LAWRIE MANTWELL John and the North Fork team gave us a chance. And Herman was a great teacher and partner. He always... JIMMY DUNNE I never believed that it would be possible, but you have this chance once in a lifetime. GOSIA SOBALA That really helped us. If they would have just attacked, we couldn't stop them. They gave us a chanc... JAIME GONGORA It would be nice for the first person in line to tell the third person that the second person just s... JOHN OTTESEN
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JOSS WHEDON Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we c... JOSS WHEDON I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They p... JOSS WHEDON I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part... JOSS WHEDON He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. JOSS WHEDON I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you'... JOSS WHEDON Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want. JOSS WHEDON I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'l... JOSS WHEDON That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick... JOSS WHEDON I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird. JOSS WHEDON I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at th... JOSS WHEDON Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in th... JOSS WHEDON I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't jus... JOSS WHEDON There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. ... JOSS WHEDON Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes w... JOSS WHEDON I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilar... JOSS WHEDON I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when... JOSS WHEDON I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, an... JOSS WHEDON The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ... JOSS WHEDON In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkne... JOSS WHEDON I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teac... JOSS WHEDON My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with... JOSS WHEDON Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to ... JOSS WHEDON All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check,... JOSS WHEDON Time for some thrillin' heroics. JOSS WHEDON Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing. JOSS WHEDON My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. ... JOSS WHEDON Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm f... JOSS WHEDON I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma...I don't have any claws. JOSS WHEDON