W. S. Merwin Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany -
I'm not coming back to play.
Calvin Johnson -
I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
Malala Yousafzai -
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw -
I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
Vance McAllister
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
Tahl Raz -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine -
I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
Malin Akerman -
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Zoe Kazan -
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
Finn Jones -
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. Auden -
Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
Victoria Osteen -
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
Aaliyah -
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Laura Fraser -
I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
Caleb Carr
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“With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.”
Alex Prager -
I now understand the need for faith-pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith-as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
Dan Simmons -
Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
Katharine Hepburn -
I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
Tony Kushner -
The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
W. S. Merwin