"Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points."

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Source : "Storytelling That Moves People". Interview with Bronwyn Fryer, hbr.org. June 2003.

Robert McKee

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“As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.48
“Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.”
“It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.”
“Stop trying to make â€˜fetchâ€™ happen. Itâ€™s not going to happen!”
“We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.”
“I am the son of an illiterate father and mother”
“We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by Godâ€™s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against manâ€™s fear will always fail.”
“I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.”

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