Bret Anthony Johnston Quotes
Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.Bret Anthony Johnston
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
Ramana Maharshi -
I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
Aaron Paul -
I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
Barry Hannah -
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
Alan Rickman
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
Albert Bandura -
I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.
Xavier Dolan -
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
Oscar Wilde -
I think we validate our lives through our actions.
Marge Piercy -
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
Carson Daly
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I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
Our hope is that those who support the animal liberation cause will see that criminal actions bring serious consequences, and will refrain from further assaults.
John Young -
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
Aristotle -
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
Aristotle -
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
Albert Einstein
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Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
Ezra Klein -
The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.
Bing Crosby -
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Norman Angell -
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death.
Confucius -
Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
Bret Anthony Johnston