Quotes About Connection

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

I got to work alongside Alexandra Shipp, who plays Storm in 'X-Men: Apocalypse', so that was really cool for me.

The Wyatt Family was a very special thing. The 3 of us came together at a perfect time. It was a perfect storm, and that rivalry with The Shield in 2014-2015 was a magical time.

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

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

Meeting kids who feel inspired by my story, it means so much to me.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

The Hindi film that connects with my life story the most is the movie 'Hero' - two brothers being lost and sort of coming back.

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.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

I think that's why most people listen to me - it is relatable. Who doesn't have a drama-filled story with an ex? We all do.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

When our characters in 'Byker Grove,' PJ and Duncan, shared a storyline, we became really close. We'd go out to the pictures, stay at each other's houses, have parties when family members were away.

Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.