#story

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. ↗

— Fred Allen

#been #comedian #comedy #compelled #compete

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. ↗

— Ted Allen

#combination #eye #form #funny #good

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#be different #communicate #different #emotionally #i

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#aesthetic #also #chosen #i #i think

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#believed #certain #could #driven #hard

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#been #come #compel #conflict #divested

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#itself #never #patterns #political #repeats

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#bad people #because #people #storytellers #then

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#high #high school #history #school #taught

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. ↗