Quotes with story-tellers

Quotes 141 till 160 of 304.

  • Blake Mycoskie Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Park My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Beau Bridges My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Beau Bridges My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Blair Underwood My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Anita Desai My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Anish Kapoor My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Carl Sandburg Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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