Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

David Christian

If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

Damien Chazelle

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Diane Mott Davidson

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Dominick Dunne

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Douglas Lain

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

Jamie Dornan

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Jeff Daniels

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Jeffery Deaver

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Jo Deurbrouck

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Judah Friedlander

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.

Jo Ann Fore

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

Dorothy Parker said "Ducking for apples – change one letter and it's the story of my life.

John Alejandro King

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

Jim Lehrer

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

John Lasseter

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.

John Logan

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Jonah Lehrer

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Jennifer Beals

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Nora Ephron

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

Nikki Grimes

Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'

Chris Pine