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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES TINA TURNER David and I drink a lot of rum together and I tell stories. ERIC HANEY LEWIS CARROLL [Ken Griffey Jr. 's recent Top 10 segment on David Letterman 's show was edited.] We threw out a few... ROB BLAKE EDGAR ALLAN POE My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ... KARYN PARSONS PHILIP YANCEY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll c... JOHN WYNDHAM Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ... MAUD HART LOVELACE CLIVE SINCLAIR We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12... CHRIS ALBRECHT We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12... CHRIS ALBRECHT LYNN ABBEY RAY BRADBURY I realized all the stories I was interested in were Southern stories, ... They are who I am and I ne... CYNTHIA HILL CANDACE BUSHNELL Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
said, and the man who was raised up o... BIBLE DAVID OGILVY Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep. BIBLE We have sent our condolences via our chairman David Morgan, who is with the PCB chairman in Australi... COLIN GIBSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON To be honest, David, I'm struggling, ... I have not been to bed yet. Behind these glasses tells a th... DAVID GOWER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold ... JIM HENSON COMPANY (The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I... LISANNE SKYLER It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally wri... TIM PRATT To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storyteller... LESLIE MARMON SILKO Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David CARLA LYNNE HALL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. BIBLE special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning... DARREN WERSHLER-HENRY TED SARANDOS P. D. JAMES ZELDA FITZGERALD STING But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath th... BIBLE CHRIS COLFER APRILYNNE PIKE I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie... SAM ABELL She'd come home and tell stories about stuff. She was going to write a book. She even had the title ... LAINE TADLOCK ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ELIZABETH GILBERT She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her SUSAN ENGBERG ILAN STAVANS She remembers so much and I have tapes of her telling stories about the old days. My family used to ... CHARLENE JOHNSON And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. BIBLE David (Kohan) said, 'There's your series, MAX MUTCHNICK I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering... LOUIS L'AMOUR HOLLY HUNTER The point is that Robert Hunter is a post-modern poet who takes fragments that he inherited from oth... DENNIS MCNALLY And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, ... BIBLE CHUCK PALAHNIUK Jenna nodded, wiping tears away with the back of her hand. She leaned toward David and they hugged a... MELISSA J. MORGAN And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a wind... BIBLE All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be... ERIK HANSON CHRIS COLFER CHRIS COLFER I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and i... DENNIS HAYSBERT This time he could no longer hold back his tears. And with them came words that he’d never been ab... SHERRY THOMAS UNKNOWN And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his fat... BIBLE AMY BLOOM C. JOYBELL C. We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian storie... YAHOO SERIOUS I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of... LAUREN WOLK I think if you had someplace to escape to once in a while , it'd help you deal with whatever you're ... CHRIS COLFER THE LAND OF STORIES I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teach... J. AUGUST RICHARDS Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scra... ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her. JOHN BENNETT ALBERT BROOKS DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL CHARLES DICKENS ANDREA DWORKIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. ... ANGELA KINSEY ERNEST HEMINGWAY JOHN BYTHEWAY During that first round of cancer treatment, he [David] was by my bedside the whole time. And, it wa... AMY DULWORTH David told me I was going as cover for Vaughan and to enjoy it, ALASTAIR COOK My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories f... CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ She tried to get the knife away and they struggled, ... you know David, they probably won't believe ... DAVID BOSS And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the ... BIBLE DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catc... SHANE SALERNO But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stori... CHARLAYNE WOODARD WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just... DAVE FILONI Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years.... BIBLE ORSON SCOTT CARD When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of book... DENIS O'HARE TANITH LEE So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and ... BIBLE It's for her own security and the security of the refugees. That's the only way she can have direct ... JENNIFER PAGONIS Once I accepted who she was, I could take her criticism less personally and try to truly help her. S... KATHERINE CROWLEY
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