Ami Vitale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

  • If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

  • Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  • What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

  • There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  • It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  • You are most powerful when you are most silent....

  • The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

  • The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

  • Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.