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KELLY JONES
I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r... KEANU REEVES Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple sto... GRACE PALEY Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
BRUCE FEILER If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.
JEFF CONAWAY
one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. I...
RANDY ALCORN If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ...
THEA HARRISON As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any...
DAMON LINDELOF
I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end. CONRAD HALL
Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a s... DON MIGUEL RUIZ
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not... MARK TWAIN I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
CARSON KRESSLEY A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enoug...
DONNA LYNNE CHAMPLIN
You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. KEITH RICHARDS
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll ... JOSEPH BRUCHAC If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background...
SAMI GAYLE It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and t...
NAOMIE HARRIS If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r...
IRA GLASS A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT
The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If... DAVID SIMON I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to ...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t...
JAKE OWEN
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but... ANG LEE I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that ...
AL YANKOVIC
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance t... JOSS WHEDON
I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I'... EVE ENSLER
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy s... DAVID IGNATIUS
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru...
NOAH HAWLEY
Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's g... DAVID L. WOLPER He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's...
DARRYL FRANK I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's f...
JOHN LEE HANCOCK
A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story. MICHAEL ENDE I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I...
AMY HEMPEL Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to...
ANITA SHREVE If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what ...
GURINDER CHADHA I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's mor...
NIKKI REED
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noi... STEVEN SPIELBERG
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL
The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do le... MICHEL FABER I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have m...
RAOUL PECK If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.
DAVID GRANN I wanted to tell a story of violence and intolerance but in a contemporary way.
MARC ASH I'm excited about becoming a transmedia storyteller. The idea that we can tell the 'Agent Mo...
ALAINA HUFFMAN I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES It's easy to tell a story than to read a story. Then again, to tell a story you must read it. But, n...
CHARLES JONES I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there&#...
RACHEL KELLER
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that wou... CHRISTINE KEELER
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's... SPIKE LEE I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emoti...
GIN WIGMORE It's a great way to tell a story,
DICK COOK If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it...
GARRET DILLAHUNT The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren&#...
STEVEN YEUN
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try a... CHANCE THE RAPPER Whether it's Brad Pitt up there, if there's a good moment up there, and you get pulled into ...
DUKE JOHNSON
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo... TIM O'BRIEN My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting character...
HAROLD RAMIS
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about... OPRAH WINFREY
Yo! I think this guy has a good eye and will be able to tell his story in a proper way. NICK CANNON You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&...
DONALD DRIVER There is another side to this story, and Raffy will tell it soon. I hope that the public will wait t...
ARN TELLEM
The only way I could tell the story was to intensify it, and shed anything that didn't serve that, .... EMMA WATSON
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens ... KEVIN HART
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer fro... GARY VAYNERCHUK Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a ...
KEVIN SAMPSELL EDITOR "SHANGHAIED" BY GIGI LITTLE If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a sto...
GREGG OLSEN I don?t know what your story will be, but if you don?t find a way to talk about innovation, it?s dis...
JULIE ANIXTER
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in techni... ISABEL ALLENDE I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with... TONY DORSETT
What is the Other?" they ask.The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not ...
KATHERINE HANNIGAN I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish ano...
TED DEMME
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat... IRA SACHS If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a boo...
COSTA RONIN There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about ...
K. FLAY I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I...
BRUCE SUTTER
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol... MALCOLM GLADWELL
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has cr... PETER JACKSON
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people ... ORHAN PAMUK Increasingly, I realized that I could not merely tell his story. Rather, I would have to tell my sto...
RONALD STEEL Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.
NICO J. GENES Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. Whe...
LAWRENCE KASDAN
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to ge... DAVID LEVITHAN If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything e...
BERNIE MAC If Pataki can craft a message that builds on this, then he has a story to tell. But the story has to...
NELSON WARFIELD I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if...
ELENA ANAYA
She's got a story to tell and the courage to tell it. SCOTT ALLEN
When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would wri... ROMAN PAYNE
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I wil... ROBERTSON DAVIES I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyo...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU
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