#tories

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#extraordinary #eye #find #heroes #i

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#forget #heritage #includes #nights #our

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #change #characters #develop #happen

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. ↗

— Method Man

#documentary #going #got #i #pick

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#basically #childhood #children #down #funny

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#campaigning #campbell #fear #gunning #his

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#good #good stories #i #i think #rare

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