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JORDIN SPARKS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON![]()
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER 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 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environm...
BEN BROWDER To me, I'm sort of like Dorothy in 'The Wiz.' It kind of parallels my life. It's a s...
KENNY LEON![]()
There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she...
SOPHIA AMORUSO When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn...
BYRON KATIE 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![]()
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'...
RICHARD LINKLATER There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to c...
CARLTON CUSE![]()
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like thi...
AUGUST WILSON![]()
I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I&#...
TANC SADE There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids...
JENNIFER YUH NELSON![]()
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction wit...
KILROY J. OLDSTER 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
ABBI GLINES I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and...
DANA DAVIS One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my s...
LEX LUGER Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.
MARTIN O'MALLEY It's a comedy so there are a lot of fun antics. But there's a lot of heart to the story.
FRANK MCCLAIN![]()
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,...
GEORGE SAUNDERS![]()
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone thro...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI![]()
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for the...
ALEC BALDWIN![]()
Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the &...
ELODIE YUNG If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
ERROL MORRIS 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested i...
CAB CALLOWAY![]()
'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.
PAUL PIERCE The 'Tickle Monster' story literally flew out of my mouth.
JOSIE BISSETT 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 When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I thi...
ERIC BRAEDEN![]()
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I...
RALPH LAUREN There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger ...
BERNIE MAC There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that'...
BOX BROWN That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters...
MING-NA WEN 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to su...
YELAWOLF![]()
'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' s...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
DAN SCANLON The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER![]()
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
CARL HIAASEN![]()
My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimat...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD![]()
I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our milit...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they'...
BOBBY FARRELLY![]()
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.
RODRIGO DUTERTE I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've ...
JOEL SCHUMACHER![]()
How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the stor...
KENNETH BRANAGH![]()
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There ...
DREW HOUSTON![]()
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader'...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE![]()
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and...
JOHN UPDIKE We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an...
ALAN YANG Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS![]()
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing ...
BEAU BRIDGES![]()
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't del...
ROBERT REDFORD 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtapos...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN![]()
'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure a...
KATEE SACKHOFF![]()
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort tha...
BARRY EISLER I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
MICHAEL SHEEN![]()
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really l...
JANE JENSEN![]()
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always wri...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER![]()
Used to do a lot of falling in love with people, almost in the street, and imagining that there woul...
ALAIN DE BOTTON![]()
There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen...
LILI SIMMONS![]()
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that...
CECELIA AHERN![]()
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has...
WYLIE DUFRESNE![]()
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too man...
GABOUREY SIDIBE What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS![]()
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO![]()
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type o...
QUENTIN TARANTINO![]()
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 160...
BRENT WEEKS At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions ...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when the...
DAVID TALBOT Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's...
SERGIO ARAGONES![]()
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story...
WALTER KIRN I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy...
COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH 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 My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from...
BODE MILLER![]()
The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same wh...
PETER GUBER I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketche...
KING BACH The story about a lot of successes, depend on who's telling the story.
GARY WIGANOWSKY![]()
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict...
JOYCE CAROL OATES![]()
There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth.
UNKNOWN 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a gi...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- th...
KAREN FRIEDMAN![]()
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to ge...
DAVID LEVITHAN![]()
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a ...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' ...
TY SEGALL![]()
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that ...
JO NESBO![]()
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'....
MARILYN MANSON The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
JOEL COEN There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
BRUCE FEILER It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in S...
CHET FAKER![]()
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an o...
BILL COSBY
JORDIN SPARKS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER 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 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environm...
BEN BROWDER To me, I'm sort of like Dorothy in 'The Wiz.' It kind of parallels my life. It's a s...
KENNY LEON
There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she... SOPHIA AMORUSO When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn...
BYRON KATIE 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
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'... RICHARD LINKLATER There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to c...
CARLTON CUSE
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like thi... AUGUST WILSON
I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I&#... TANC SADE There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids...
JENNIFER YUH NELSON
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction wit... KILROY J. OLDSTER 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
ABBI GLINES I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and...
DANA DAVIS One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my s...
LEX LUGER Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.
MARTIN O'MALLEY It's a comedy so there are a lot of fun antics. But there's a lot of heart to the story.
FRANK MCCLAIN
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,... GEORGE SAUNDERS
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone thro... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for the... ALEC BALDWIN
Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the &... ELODIE YUNG If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
ERROL MORRIS 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested i...
CAB CALLOWAY
'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie. PAUL PIERCE The 'Tickle Monster' story literally flew out of my mouth.
JOSIE BISSETT 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 When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I thi...
ERIC BRAEDEN
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I... RALPH LAUREN There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger ...
BERNIE MAC There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that'...
BOX BROWN That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters...
MING-NA WEN 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to su...
YELAWOLF
'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' s... KELLY SUE DECONNICK I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
DAN SCANLON The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story. CARL HIAASEN
My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimat... BLAIR UNDERWOOD
I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our milit... TAMMY DUCKWORTH Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they'...
BOBBY FARRELLY
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing. RODRIGO DUTERTE I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've ...
JOEL SCHUMACHER
How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the stor... KENNETH BRANAGH
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There ... DREW HOUSTON
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader'... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and... JOHN UPDIKE We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an...
ALAN YANG Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing ... BEAU BRIDGES
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't del... ROBERT REDFORD 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtapos...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN
'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure a... KATEE SACKHOFF
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort tha... BARRY EISLER I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
MICHAEL SHEEN
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. ... BRADLEY WHITFORD I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really l...
JANE JENSEN
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always wri... OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Used to do a lot of falling in love with people, almost in the street, and imagining that there woul... ALAIN DE BOTTON
There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen... LILI SIMMONS
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that... CECELIA AHERN
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv... CARLOS GHOSN I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has...
WYLIE DUFRESNE
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too man... GABOUREY SIDIBE What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS
What is the Other?" they ask.The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type o... QUENTIN TARANTINO
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 160... BRENT WEEKS At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions ...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when the...
DAVID TALBOT Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's...
SERGIO ARAGONES
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story... WALTER KIRN I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy...
COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH 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 My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from...
BODE MILLER
The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same wh... PETER GUBER I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketche...
KING BACH The story about a lot of successes, depend on who's telling the story.
GARY WIGANOWSKY
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict... JOYCE CAROL OATES
There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth. UNKNOWN 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a gi...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- th...
KAREN FRIEDMAN
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to ge... DAVID LEVITHAN
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a ...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' ...
TY SEGALL
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that ... JO NESBO
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'.... MARILYN MANSON The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
JOEL COEN There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
BRUCE FEILER It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in S...
CHET FAKER
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an o... BILL COSBY
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r... 
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teac... 
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness ... 