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DEYTH BANGER About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo... MIRA NAIR I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyte... ROBERT STACK I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film;... OPHELIA LOVIBOND I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie w... DOLLY PARTON A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does thi... FEDE ALVAREZ Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha... BETH ORTON I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor... F. GARY GRAY I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you... BEN STILLER I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,... DENIS LEARY Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It&... DAVID BLAINE As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w... DAN HARMON All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newsp... 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JAMES CAMERON I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievabl... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot... AIDAN TURNER Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been ... KAT GRAHAM I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to ... GARRETT DILLAHUNT I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I... RYAN GOSLING If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for mys... KIM KARDASHIAN Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck.... MORGAN FREEMAN I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassett... WILL OLDHAM I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or no... DENNIS MUREN If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ... TOM CRUISE I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's jo... PENNY MARSHALL There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' ... DAVID S. GOYER I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what ... GURINDER CHADHA On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoen... ASAP ROCKY I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ... SAMUEL BARNETT I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it int... LARRY KING I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's f... GILBERT GOTTFRIED If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's f... CARSON WENTZ I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... 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GARY SHTEYNGART In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu... GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ... GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ... GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa... GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t... GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult... GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret... GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it... GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se... GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ... GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books. GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'... GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli... GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th... GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati... GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph... GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n... GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g... GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv... GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it. GARY SHERMAN