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The story that is about to unfold before you is long, complicated and chilling,


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ALAN GOLDSHER I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to sp...
ALAN GOLDSHER The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
VANNA BONTA It is not the story of Elizabeth Short. The movie is complicated. It's about characters who are impa...
BRIAN PALMA It is not the story of Elizabeth Short. The movie is complicated. It's about characters who are impa...
BRIAN DE PALMA Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
KAREN JOY FOWLER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, an...
DAVE MORRIS Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL You can buy about four hundred tiny fashion separates that mix and match to create three tasteful ou...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between R...
DONALD MCCAIG Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM People are always asking what it's like to have Paul ... The truth is that the image that Paul gives...
MARIO DOMINGUEZ If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list...
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JACK WELCH To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... It was surreal. I watched it unfold before my eyes, and I said to myself, 'This is it. This is the p...
WARREN ZINN There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Message from Archangel Gabriel: "Your life is one of unique perspective. You have teams of angels wo...
KIMBERLY DAWN Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage.
DEBASISH MRIDHA My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too r...
ANITA DESAI In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
GEORGE BALANCHINE That's something that small-business owners have been complaining [about] for a long time. It's pret...
ANGELA JONES You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
DUNCAN JONES Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.
GUY FORGET [Superstitious Mathilde (Tautou) refuses to believe the news that her fiance, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel...
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.
JULIE ORRINGER The biggest thing about Paul is that he never seems to get tired.
JEFF WILSON Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best...
FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. I'm going to let the week of practice unfold. I'm going to watch, look, evaluate, determine. I'd lik...
JACK DEL RIO This is the most expensive, worst and most complicated disaster that we've had to deal with for a lo...
JEANNE SALVATORE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past...
JOSé N. HARRIS To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stori...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE This book is its story, and mine. It is also yours. Because it won’t be long before the repercussi...
JENNIFER A. DOUDNA It is new and it is chilling. Because it means we may have a hard time finding firms that won't have...
HOWARD DUVALL How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters...
MING-NA WEN I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
DON RYAN We kept insisting that so long as you cared about the characters and there was a universal aspect to...
DAVID CRANE Apparently, when people travel between dimensions, their physical forms are "no longer observable," ...
CLAUDIA GRAY So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and y...
ELLEN STOFAN Chilling Tales For Dark Nights, these people or let's say these team is trying to return the fear, t...
DEYTH BANGER You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and...
ELIZABETH WARREN The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I’d be part of the story myself.
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK It's another in the long series of the no-news-is-good-news story about inflation.
BILL CHENEY It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is a...
JAMILA WOODS It's a bit embarrassing getting such a big prize. My collaborators really deserve it for all of thei...
GEOFFREY MARCY Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
TODD STRASSER Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to...
TONY BRADMAN When you give up two long runs like that the game plan changes, unfortunately. Paul is a tremendous ...
BRUCE SCIFRES My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging tha...
LEE DANIELS life is what you do before you say goodnight to the world death is that long awaited dream that you ...
THOMAS PRICE I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicat...
ALICE PAUL The art is long, life is short.
HIPPOCRATES Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you ...
KEVIN BARRY You go through a whole procedure before you can even pitch an idea. They would only talk to me very ...
CHARLIE HUSTON Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.
JENNIFER GRANHOLM The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to...
GROVER NORQUIST Life is short, the art long.
HIPPOCRATES Time is long but life is short.
STEVIE WONDER If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
BRUCE RAUNER That may be the biggest chilling effect, is all the misinformation out there.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER