Quotes About Passion

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.

Football's not particularly crazy. Once you are in it, you're in the eye of the storm, and it's quite nice.

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

I would love to do a love story or a socially relevant drama. Something on the lines of Netflix originals. I would love to explore the big screen, too.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

I have been getting proposals to play the lead from a long time but I rebuffed those offers. I wanted to work in a storyline that has scope for me.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.