#tories

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers. ↗

— William Devane

#bottom line #come #eighth #ends #everybody

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#cameraman #capturing #into #news #phone

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#cost #cover #independent #simply #sources

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through? ↗

— H.M. Forester

#stories #dreams

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#desire #ensemble #groups #i #involved

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#fiction #on-fiction #stories #writing #broken

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? ↗

— David Byrne

#life #meaning #music #ocean #pleasure

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. ↗

— Ben Okri

#mythology #stories #storytelling #life

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#family #food #mythology #religion #stories