Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dana Gioia

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Doris Roberts

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Aesop

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Alfred Korzybski

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

Alex Kapranos

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Andrej Pejic

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Chuck Palahniuk

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Andrew Solomon

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

Clay Shirky

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.