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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

Father, Fire, Tell

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
Alan Rickman

Human, Control, Why

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Chinua Achebe

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
Pamela Anderson

Life, Beautiful, Important

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.
Elie Wiesel

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Love, Again

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.
Daniel Radcliffe

Understand, Why, Become

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke

Science, Read, Fiction

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
Martin Scorsese

Father, Old, Sense

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Young, Energy

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.
Tori Amos

Telling, Privilege, Conduit

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Willie Nelson

Sad, Yourself, Sorry

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine

Person, Made, American

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
P. G. Wodehouse

Writing, Before, Five

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.
George Lucas

Inspired, Interested, Kid

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Jean de la Bruyere

Mind, Telling, Mark

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Story, Actually, Hand

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
W. H. Auden

Good, Night, Short

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Try, Tell, Tangled

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Willa Cather

Human, Two, Before

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright

Business, Laugh, Made

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Henry Louis Gates

Family, Trees, Buried

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Al Franken

Money, Easy, Making

Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.
Jenny McCarthy

Tell, Speak, Kids

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Elton John

Love, Work, Religion

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Charles Kuralt

Success, Work, Giving

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
Charles Kuralt

Freedom, Fun, America

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
Louis C. K.

Great, Movies, Struggle

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.
Mindy Kaling

Funny, Age, Parents

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
Catherine Deneuve

Love, Women, Why

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