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The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.
John Zimmer
Me
Experience
Strong
Strict
Tough
Sense
Community
Jobs
Mustache
Strong Sense
Some
Main
New
New Friends
Discovered
Fist
Pink
Bump
Up
Friends
HUGS
Difference
Screening
Stories
After
Break
Break Up
Social
Many
Even
Fostered
My dad was an actor, and he made it all seem quite magical. It felt like a slightly subversive thing, telling stories, when all of my other friends' parents were builders or bank clerks. It's always seemed quite magical to me.
Johnny Flynn
Me
Made
Parents
Other
Slightly
Telling
Magical
Seem
Seemed
He
Like
Builders
Felt
Always
Were
Friends
Quite
Bank
Stories
Subversive
Dad
Actor
Thing
NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.
Johnny Gargano
Tell
Unpredictable
Lot
Afraid
Different
Stories
Compelling
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant
Class
People
About
Write
Always
Real
America
Common
Stories
Common People
Common Things
Working
Working-Class
Things
When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.
Jon Favreau
Me
Reality
Amazing
Made
Fire
Think
Out
See
Tabloids
Disappointing
Smoke
Always
How
Bummer
Up
Celebrities
Get
Where
Stories
Little
Really
Pop
Used
Now
Nowhere
Things
Basis
I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.
Jon Hamm
Hundred
Hundred Years
Tell
Could
Years
Listen
Stories
I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.
Jon M. Chu
People
Tell
Share
Feel
Make
Make Up
Up
Just
Stories
Them
Lucky
Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.
Jon M. Chu
Right Person
Power
Way
Some
Learned
Person
Maybe
Stories
Naturally
Help
Right
Need
I certainly tried to talk about less complex things, but I've had to accept that it's just not what I do. That isn't to say that my shows are depressing - they aren't. At least, I hope they aren't! The problem I have with stories about happy things is that they don't require any skill from a comic - they just repeat the details verbatim.
Jon Richardson
Hope
Happy
Problem
Say
Complex
Tried
Details
About
Had
Talk
Accept
Comic
Least
Repeat
Any
Just
Stories
Depressing
Skill
Happy Things
Require
Certainly
Less
Shows
Things
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
Jon Ronson
Try
Possible
Write
True
Like
Obviously
Always
Very
Stories
Hardest
When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'
Jon Scieszka
Dog
Mother
Father
Thought
Other
Say
Would
See
Names
Look
Also
Read
Because
Said
Always
Were
Lot
Sally
Forget
Afraid
Stories
Jane
Might
Next
Each
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.
Jon Scieszka
Me
Strange
Book
Writing
Dog
School
Made
Reading
Think
Kid
Favorite
Bizarre
Throughout
True
Advantage
Stuff
Like
Well
Always
Still
Go
Did
Just
Stories
Loved
Realize
Dr
Early
I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.
Jon Watts
Writing
Mind
Own
Our
Spider-Man
Crossed
Never
Like
Liked
Making
Friends
Movie
Stories
Little
Even
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
Jonathan Coe
Time
Trouble
Books
Out
Write
Because
Same
Short
Same Time
Stories
Short Stories
Which
Turn
Novels
Why
Keeping
Things
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.
Jonathan Dee
Book
Will
Sorry
Book Tour
Ourselves
Easy
Writers
Tour
Sharing
Feel
Like
Terrible
Private
Often
Situations
Stories
Which
Social
Themselves
I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.
Jonathan Franklin
Me
People
Amazing
Pour
Sit
Top
Secrets
Those
Out
Must
Recorder
Could
Look
Most
Most Amazing
Because
Am
Camera
Been
Fishing
Tape
Tape Recorder
Spy
Trustworthy
Confess
Stories
While
Notch
Video
Video Camera
Even
I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums.
Jonathan Hickman
Life
Home
Believe
Other
Mediums
Those
Visual
Easy
Finds
Constraints
Budget
Sci-Fi
Because
Comics
Historical
Historical Fiction
Effects
Fiction
Stories
Regards
Necessary
Bring
My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.
Jonathan Maberry
Action
Teens
Ruin
Books
Topics
Joe
Folklore
Trilogy
Classic
Martial
Martial Arts
Horror
Thrillers
Adult
Written
Adventure
Tales
Dead
Nonfiction
Pine
Arts
Stories
Rot
Deep
Series
Novels
Zombie
Night
My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.
Jonathan Maberry
Sad
Funny
People
Heroic
Monster
Favorite
Telling
Threats
About
Scary
Allow
Most
Because
Always
Metaphors
Been
Tragic
Pathetic
So Much Fun
Stories
Story
Elastic
Much
Interfere
Fun
Even
Serve
Zombie
Humans
When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
Jonathan Maberry
Me
Long
First
Before
Mark
Jim
Geeks
Guns
Pretty
About
Entirely
Force
Became
Were
Encountered
Friends
Close
Accurate
Stories
While
Really
Speaks
Novels
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
Jonathan Nolan
People
Whatever
Drama
Idea
Cameras
Ambient
Human
Stories
Reason
Fascinated
Capturing
I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.
Jonathan Nolan
Character
You
Way
Could
Develop
Over
Along
Like
Up
Eight
Where
Grew
Stories
Shows
Seasons
Watching
I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.
Jonathan Nolan
Change
Approaches
Relationships
Characters
Evolve
Both
Develop
Mythology
Combine
Always
Where
Stories
Loved
Shows
Whose
Set
I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.
Jonathan Pryce
Stage
Other
Tell
Unbelievable
About
Between
Stories
Aggression
Actor
Level
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Jonathan Sacks
Education
Today
Politics
Game
World
Tomorrow
Build
Changes
Our
Tell
Born
Pieces
Children
Moves
Stories
We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.
Jonathan Stroud
Great
You
Older
Society
Our
Indeed
About
Been
Question
Up
Get
Being
Stories
Decide
Figures
Grow
Grow Up
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