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Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It’s a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City Picture Quote #1

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places Picture Quote #1

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years Picture Quote #1

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories Picture Quote #1

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories Picture Quote #1

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it’s beautiful, it’s tough, it’s buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It’s covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure Picture Quote #1

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Tattoos are like stories - they’re symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful Picture Quote #1

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories Picture Quote #1

A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love Picture Quote #1

...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels Picture Quote #1

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don’t progress. People interact but don’t make contact Picture Quote #1

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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I’m so blessed Picture Quote #1

My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in ‘G.I. Joe’ and ‘Transformers’ and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever Picture Quote #1

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, ‘dream on’. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories Picture Quote #1

I don’t remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he’d make them up Picture Quote #1

I decided I don’t want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I’d like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years Picture Quote #1

The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah? I said no. He said, You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now. It was the gift that kept on giving Picture Quote #1

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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn’t stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom Picture Quote #1

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories Picture Quote #1

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories Picture Quote #1

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories Picture Quote #1

Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist. On the beach with a few club sodas. Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris and don’t know the real hardcore Picture Quote #1

I had always been proud of my mom. So she’d never back cookies, or sew a Halloween costume, but she could fight monsters. She was tough and smart, and maybe she didn’t read bedtime stories, but she had taught me to defend myself against the things that lurked under beds Picture Quote #1

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As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children’s music. I couldn’t find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic Picture Quote #1

The spark for ‘In Praise of Slowness’ came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages Picture Quote #1

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales Picture Quote #1

I don’t like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that’s something else again Picture Quote #1

The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with ‘Blood Knot,’ which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage Picture Quote #1

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again Picture Quote #1

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Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It’s a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City. (Stories Quotes) Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places. (Stories Quotes) A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years. (Stories Quotes) Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories. (Stories Quotes) In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. (Stories Quotes) Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it’s beautiful, it’s tough, it’s buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It’s covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. (Stories Quotes) Tattoos are like stories - they’re symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. (Stories Quotes) I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable. (Stories Quotes) As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories (Stories Quotes) A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love. (Stories Quotes) ...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels. (Stories Quotes) I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don’t progress. People interact but don’t make contact. (Stories Quotes) Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I’m so blessed. (Stories Quotes) My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in ‘G.I. Joe’ and ‘Transformers’ and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever. (Stories Quotes) My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, ‘dream on’. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories. (Stories Quotes) I don’t remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he’d make them up. (Stories Quotes) I decided I don’t want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I’d like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years. (Stories Quotes) The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah? I said no. He said, You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now. It was the gift that kept on giving. (Stories Quotes) I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn’t stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. (Stories Quotes) My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories (Stories Quotes) It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories. (Stories Quotes) My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. (Stories Quotes) Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist. On the beach with a few club sodas. Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris and don’t know the real hardcore. (Stories Quotes) I had always been proud of my mom. So she’d never back cookies, or sew a Halloween costume, but she could fight monsters. She was tough and smart, and maybe she didn’t read bedtime stories, but she had taught me to defend myself against the things that lurked under beds. (Stories Quotes) As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children’s music. I couldn’t find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic. (Stories Quotes) The spark for ‘In Praise of Slowness’ came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages. (Stories Quotes) I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales (Stories Quotes) I don’t like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that’s something else again. (Stories Quotes) The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with ‘Blood Knot,’ which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage. (Stories Quotes) It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. (Stories Quotes)

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