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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.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.