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People say: 'Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?' If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you'd be going: 'Wow, that's amazing.' You can't see it as 'Oh, it's no longer a channel because it's not on TV.'
James Corden
You
Be Happy
Happy
People
Amazing
Channel
Say
Signed
TV
Telling
Would
Wow
See
People Say
Netflix
Online
Had
Longer
Because
Deal
Go
Huge
Going
Oh
Just
Your
Show
Sat
Here
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
James Frey
Art
Me
Whatever
Painting
Thinking
Out
Telling
See
Seeing
Someone
Feel
Go
Front
Want
Gallery
Should
Stand
Figure
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
James Gunn
Beautiful
Art
Me
Ugly
Big
Think
Telling
One Of The Things
Finding
General
Drives
Mass
Stories
Things
As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.
James L. Dolan
You
Money
Feelings
Important
Own
Say
Telling
About
More
Invest
Shareholders
Head
Because
Sell
Than
Personal
Public
Public Company
Then
Your
Company
Assets
Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
James Murphy
Band
Everyone
Kid
Telling
Guitars
Over
Leaning
Drums
Tune
Them
Even
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
James Purefoy
God
You
Women
People
Path
Men
Believe
Out
Telling
Look
Mostly
Islamic
Around
Got
Lot
Heaven
Just
Mean
Them
Us
Who
Awful
Awful Lot
Things
Fundamentalist
Christians
I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.
James Salter
Life
Sometimes
Imagination
Everything
Say
Out
Telling
Would
Lies
Exaggerated
Someone
Rather
Writers
True
Obviously
Make
Am
True Story
Hear
His
Up
May
Essentially
Want
Anything
Story
Which
Room
Uninterested
Who
Even
It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.
James Wan
Best
You
Down
Believe
Those
Tell
Characters
Telling
Pretty
Particular
Like
Genre
Genres
Any
Want
Stories
Much
Apply
Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.
Jamie Foxx
Day
Me
Man
Jokes
Learning
Living
Telling
Piano
Put
After
Grandma
Hard
Hard Day
Her
When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
Jamie Foxx
Me
Destination
Energy
Think
Destiny
Telling
Would
Inside
Minute
Born
Something
Knew
Like
Supposed
Felt
Go
Intangible
Texas
Up
Where
Different
Meant
Growing
Growing Up
Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.
Jamie Parker
Rare
To Be Honest
Think
Telling
Hopeful
Rare Thing
More
Stories
Now
Thing
Need
Honest
Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.
Jamie Sives
Time
You
Man
Job
Rare
South Africa
Back
Pants
Out
Telling
Take
He
Come
Call
Him
Another
Isle
His
South
Mobile
Friend
Sir
Arthur
Shoot
Died
Any
Going
Africa
Straight
Richard
Agent
Acting
Your
Wash
Rehearsing
Even
Suddenly
Miller
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
Education
Will
Degree
Men
Own
Every
Books
Pen
Has-Been
Telling
Higher
Allow
Had
Advantage
Prove
Been
Hands
Anything
Story
Us
Much
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
Jane Campion
Love
Myself
You
Conservative
Cinema
Better
Otherwise
Unless
Television
Telling
Daring
More
Message
Within
Go
Been
Very
Story
Which
Now
Satisfies
Zone
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
Jane Campion
Me
Director
People
Mirror
Telling
Able
About
Put
Like
Look
Maybe
Being
Watching
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
Jane Pauley
Work
News
Gardening
People
Recognition
Recognize
Tell
Telling
Tried
Inside
Insight
Some
Share
Come
Look
Call
Sort
Hindsight
Report
Often
Stories
Might
Spark
Interests
Viewer
Moment
Helping
Helping People
NBC
Interpersonal
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
Janet Evanovich
Business
Book
Writing
Try
Somewhere
Nothing
Later
Finally
Telling
Would
About
Ten
Ten Years
Had
Knew
Along
Liked
Got
Line
Years
Getting
Stories
Decided
Realized
Working
Skills
Hard
Keep
Published
I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.
Janet Reno
Me
Thinking
Telling
About
More
Knew
Town
Like
Coming
Miami
Than
Them
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
Janna Levin
Think
Telling
Scientific
Story
Certain
No one gave a crap that I was the kid from 'Free Willy'. You're not in some wispy fantasyland where everyone's telling you 'yes' all the time, which happens a lot to actors.
Jason James Richter
Time
You
Free
Gave
Everyone
Kid
Telling
Some
No-One
Lot
Yes
Where
Crap
Happens
Which
Actor
The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.
Jason Katims
Me
Think
Those
Telling
Kinds
Parenthood
Writers
Lights
Most
Been
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Privilege
Stories
Working
Shows
Night
Try telling people in the Seventies that butter was healthier for you than margarine, and they would force feed you with Stork.
Jasper Carrott
You
People
Try
Seventies
Telling
Would
Feed
Force
Healthier
Than
Butter
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
Jay-Z
Me
Emotions
Way
Rap
Telling
Through
Songs
Like
Making
Making Movies
Getting
Just
Stories
Movies
Deep
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.
Jay Asher
Work
Time
You
Book
Somebody
Waste Time
Telling
Hates
Going
Really
Your
Waste
Need
There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Work
Police
Crime
Gun
Thanks
Virginia
Lobby
Way
Telling
Detective
Guns
Only
Computers
Absurdly
How
West
West Virginia
Antiquated
America
Gets
Owner
Where
Place
Turn
Agency
Used
Help
Illegal
Connect
Many
Cops
We have rules in the rule book that are very specific. If the quarterback is in a throwing position, he gets protection. But in the event that the ball is handed off, at that instant, there's no telling whether or not he is a runner or not, so he loses that protection.
Jeff Fisher
Book
Protection
Rule
Rule Book
Rules
Telling
Runner
Throwing
He
Instant
Ball
Quarterback
Loses
Off
Handed
Very
Gets
Whether
Event
Specific
Position
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