#stories

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#else #happen #irony #somebody #stories

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.

#feelings #great #had #i #lot

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#films #lovely #pieces #simple #stories

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. ↗

— Anthony Davis

#i love #love #music #opera #stories

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. ↗

— Greg Egan

#i #lately #longer #stories #taking

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#fun #great #high #high school #most

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#blues #built #contemporary #contemporary music #depth

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out? ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#how #many #ny times #out #put