#story

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#following #left #light #old #old world

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story. ↗

— Bill Condon

#been #bennett #cast #change #ensemble

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. ↗

— John Bruton

#century #creation #enjoyed #europe #half

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#for the people #history #i #i can #me

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#history #know #repeat #those #who

My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#been #black #call #development #fall

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#dialogue #i #story #structure #terrible

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#ear #story #voice

I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy. ↗

— Jay Carney

#america #back #economy #first #first time