#stories

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#interested #like #lives #often #own

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#different #every #every day #got #i

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#direct #familiar #film #first #start

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#make #new #old #oldest #stories

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#businesses #exist #few #how #i

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. ↗

— Theresa May

#act #am #because #cannot #cat

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#first #first time #had #hard #himself

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#decide #focus #i #i do #ideas

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#been #business #forever #men #our

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. ↗

— Michael McKean

#go #hundreds #kind #king #like