#tories

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#get #itself #life #like #no point

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#developing #eventual #going #hands #heard

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#anybody #depression #different #else #everybody

In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man. ↗

— David Strathairn

#am #because #bedrock #constitutional #constitutional rights

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#enjoyed #few #fun #good #i

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #battle #environmental #environmental movement #every

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#been #beginning #beings #human #human beings

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#certainly #evil #good #make #myths

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#fun #get #i #just #kind