#tell

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#changed #different #enormously #fundamentally #grown

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #color #different #different color #different kind

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

#doubts #especially #faith #good #good faith

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#conflicting #directly #entertain #felt #i

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ↗

— Henry Adams

#affects #eternity #his #influence #never

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?' ↗

— Rick Baker

#getting #grow #grow up #how #i

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hired #interests #involved #lies #nobody

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#beat #care #go #i #image

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#around #business #cleveland #come #dinner

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. ↗

— Todd Akin

#anybody #bird #bunch #i #involved