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Tom Bissell

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RANDA HAINES If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even...
SHONDA RHIMES To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks ...
SARITA CHOUDHURY Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense...
ANTOINE FUQUA When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's ...
ZELJKO IVANEK The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all ...
YAHOO SERIOUS You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a pro...
TOBIN BELL Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the wo...
JOHN CUSACK There's something cool about traveling when you're young. There's a sense of camaraderie...
COBIE SMULDERS I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've ...
JOEL SCHUMACHER There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable s...
DAVID BECKHAM But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b...
TOM SELLECK There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfort...
ALEX LOWE I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I'...
EVE ENSLER Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really abl...
JASON MORAN When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And...
MALESE JOW There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things...
TOBIAS WOLFF 'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they&#...
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'...
KENNETH BRANAGH To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interact...
ALEX KARPOVSKY Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people ne...
JAMES MCAVOY The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the...
MICHAEL DICKINSON When I think of greatness, I think of guys like Earl Campbell and Gale Sayers and Walter Payton, and...
JIM BROWN I think there's a, you know, certain kind of freedom for me when I get on stage. Maybe it's ...
LIV WARFIELD As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do w...
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ANDREW STANTON When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those wall...
KELLIE PICKLER I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
ANDREW SHUE What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think ...
RONNIE DUNN There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for bo...
L.A. WEATHERLY Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor...
CLARKE PETERS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, ...
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CAROLYN MURPHY When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stori...
ALBERT BROOKS Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bik...
NOUREEN DEWULF When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn...
BYRON KATIE I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell...
IAN HISLOP In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about id...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru...
NOAH HAWLEY We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes...
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GAYLE FORMAN I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not...
GREG BEHRENDT 'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science ...
DAVID GERROLD When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unreso...
MARTI NOXON There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English school...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, bu...
TAMSIN EGERTON That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you'...
ERIC MCCORMACK How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fig...
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BILLY BUTLER There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu...
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KEN KESEY I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me....
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LAURENCE D. FINK Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six mon...
LAUREN BACALL When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because y...
CARA DELEVINGNE I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They...
CAMERON MATHISON I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.&#...
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion,...
SUSAN STRAIGHT Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very ...
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TREY BURKE Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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SARAH J. MAAS Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's ...
BEN HARPER There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
JOHN VON NEUMANN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be te...
JOHN CUSACK In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and...
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DANIEL GILLIES Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime...
BRUCE WEBER I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older wome...
TAYE DIGGS A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to;...
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CARLENE CARTER When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrato...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playin...
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MATT GROENING When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a gro...
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CONOR MCGREGOR There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere...
ELLEN POMPEO Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there'...
WILL YUN LEE When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual p...
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PETER GUBER There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they...
LINDSAY WAGNER When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecke...
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TOM WILSON Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
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TOM HIDDLESTON There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
TOM COBURN There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But ...
TOM SELLECK I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, ...
TOM SIZEMORE They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die...
TOM DELONGE We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
TOM BROKAW Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a soc...
TOM WAITS My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind m...
TOM WAITS Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new ama...
TOM SHALES The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ...
TOM WAITS The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-perce...
TOM SHALES The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS