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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.