#stories

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#global #most #mythologies #religious #root

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#made #my own #myself #only #own

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#i think #need #our #our world #reflect

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#artistic #artistically #back #business #challenges

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? ↗

— Bob Uecker

#clubhouse #else #explain #how #letter

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#any #having #i #recall #self-awareness

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' ↗

— Mike Wallace

#always #anyone #assistants #could #criminal

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#asking #been #community-based #doing #down

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. ↗

— Samuel West

#always #bedroom #bedtime #both #did

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #drain #else #except #god