Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that’s another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers. – Jennifer Granholm
I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story. – Irvin D. Yalom
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial. – John Grisham
That’s the thing about Aquaman that’s cool is he’s not an alien, right? He’s from our planet, and he’s from a society that we’re not privy to in the context of the story. – James Wan
I’ve never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own. – Jim Harrison
A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is ‘unrealistic.’ – Jane Lindskold
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. – Jason Alexander
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in psychotics. I’m interested in the person you don’t expect to have a story. I like Everyman. – John Hughes
Most people are dispensable in ‘Game of Thrones,’ not only in the story but in the series. – Isaac Hempstead Wright
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. – Jack Horner
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. – Ira Glass
Maybe our telling of the story wasn’t as clear as it should have been, but I don’t think that’s true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. – Joel Coen
I’m not a big fan of introducing a bunch of new mysteries into a story without really knowing where they’re going because you just end up struggling at the end to make sense of them and make it all seem like you planned it all along. – Jeff Lemire
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them. – Isabel Allende
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes. – James Randi
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don’t want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can. – James D’arcy
Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can’t. They don’t hear that point where something else has to come. – James Salter
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place. – Jodie Foster
Way back in the ’70s, I was approached to talk about the story I’d write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when. – John Carpenter
You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there’s a real entry into the story – that some quality speaks to the individual. – Jill McCorkle
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story. – Jesse Eisenberg
The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It’s about who’s getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more. – James McBride
I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before. – James Cameron