Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.

Worth' was a script that was sent to me, and I felt it was something different and important to do.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This is the first time that we have the capacity to understand our place in the greater scheme of things to the extent that we do.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream and accomplish some of your goals, but I would never want to do a show where I am preaching to anyone because I do not like being preached at. I want to learn right along with my audience and every show will be a collaborative effort. I am so thankful to Debra Lee and everyone at the BET Network for providing me with this unique opportunity and platform.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?