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I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.
Lizzy Caplan

Movies, Why, Reason

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
Danica Patrick

Read, Anyone, House

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
Paul Theroux

Peace, Made, Two

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux

Great, Travel, Rather

'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.
Josh Hutcherson

Love, Character, Game

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
Ice T

Future, Put, Hollywood

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
Joseph Barbera

Idea, Bible, Based

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Charles de Lint

Forget, Else, Tell

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
John Bolton

Government, Off, Buildings

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
Howard Nemerov

Time, Long, Before

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
Howard Nemerov

Greatest, Gave, Modern

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
Anna Deavere Smith

Loved, Listen, Kid

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
Eric Liu

War, Him, Pictures

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig

Life, Humor, Comic

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Manuel Puig

Two, Movie, Space

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
Manuel Puig

Understand, Tell, Felt

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.
Prince William

Said, Wrong, She

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
Dave Grohl

Time, Good, Done

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Anne Rice

May, Working, Though

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
Jane Campion

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
Zoe Saldana

Great, Amazing, Whatever

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Zoe Saldana

Great, Relevant

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Zoe Saldana

Life, Great, Movies

Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.
Rainn Wilson

Human, Through, Place

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
Keira Knightley

Life, Love, Movies

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
Matt Groening

Done, Seen, Television

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
Matt Groening

Funny, Sometimes, Another

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
Matt Groening

Thinking, Kid, Audience

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
Tyler Perry

Life, Far, Welcome

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
Jimmy Wales

Seen, Journalism, Ordinary

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