Wes Moore Quotes
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.Wes Moore
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Kate Forsyth -
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx -
The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Ted Olson -
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
Farooq Abdullah -
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
Nathan Fillion -
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Lalla Ward
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
Lake Bell -
People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
Ian Doescher -
For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
Samantha Power -
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
Barry Unsworth -
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Odilon Redon -
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
Alan Paton
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Alan Rickman -
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
Ang Lee -
When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.
T. Jefferson Parker -
My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
Ben Affleck -
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
Edwidge Danticat -
But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.
Marshawn Lynch
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I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones -
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
Ed Koch -
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.
Mary Doria Russell -
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
Wes Moore