Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
Aidan Gillen
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON 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 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'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN 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 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES 'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. ... BEN BASS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it... AIDAN GILLEN I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a... RICHIE HAVENS I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester... VAL MCDERMID I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w... DAN HARMON I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if... P. J. O'ROURKE Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi... MIKE COLTER 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matri... KEANU REEVES I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk. NATHAN LANE In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the ... CAMPBELL BROWN We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like... TAHAR RAHIM I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me.... TED NAIFEH There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Satu... TOM WOLFE Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one. TAYLOR DYE 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble... BAYARD TAYLOR After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound... GAYLE FORMAN The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in t... EUGENE LEVY I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for... CANDACE BUSHNELL I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little sc... REBEL WILSON Bob Fosse, even though he wasn't gay. He was certainly queer and had a huge effect on the 'H... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there we... MICHELLE FAIRLEY I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City ... KURT BUSIEK My family were really happy for me that I'm going to such a big club as Manchester United. They ... ANTHONY MARTIAL We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a... AVA DUVERNAY We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but ... ADAM HICKS Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the co... RICHARD ATTIAS I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' whi... TERI GARR Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang... DANNII MINOGUE if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have IRAZ 'DEALOVA' Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... TED DEKKER In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about id... GUGU MBATHA-RAW The name 'The Tig' comes from a wine called tignanello, and the first time I had a sip of th... MEGHAN MARKLE My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder... PATRICIA BRIGGS It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on... LAURENCE FISHBURNE Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was... DAVID CARSON They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They... RICK RIORDAN I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampir... BILL NIGHY I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w... LYDIA DAVIS I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and th... J. H. WYMAN I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they&... BECKY G For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if ... THOMAS MALLON The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be... WALTER SALLES I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the ... RAINA TELGEMEIER Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo... BERNADETTE DEVLIN It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. BERNADETTE DEVLIN One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each o... BERNADETTE DEVLIN To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. BERNADETTE DEVLIN The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, ... STEVE ERICKSON My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family lif... CANDACE CAMERON BURE As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. PHILIPPE PETIT I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all... NOLAN NORTH My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were ... CARY FUKUNAGA As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popula... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better? 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the ... JEFF BEZOS Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and... TOM SCHOLZ What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' ... TODD HAYNES Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - ... ROBIN HOBB Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilli... ANTONY GORMLEY But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me s... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit w... CHELSEA CLINTON Queer as Folk. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories abo... AARON SORKIN Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a '... CHELAN SIMMONS I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.... T. J. THYNE Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C... RANSOM RIGGS Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first ... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Eu... VILLE VALO Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first... DAVID HOCKNEY
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