Macaulay Connor: [to the butler] The Queen will have bread and honey at the usual time.
Uncle Willie: [watching Kittredge clumsily mount a horse] Heigh Ho Silver.
Tracy Lord: South Bend, it sounds almost like dancing.
Walt Disney: Don't you want to finish the story?
Woody: Pull my string! The birthday party's today? Okay everybody, the coast is clear!
Maria: [after discovering that Bernardo is killed] Make it not true, please make it not true!
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.
The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.
I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.
I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.
