“I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.” WantFeelsStoriesEurope Author:Roger Michell
“I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.” WorldKindWarWholeStoriesHeardMilitaryEmotionalGrewGrew UpEuropeHearingSavedWar Of The WorldsOfficersExposedWorld War IiWorld War IGrandparentVeteranNavyRetiredPacificMarine CorpsWhole FamilySubmarinesMilitary Family Author:David Ayer
“These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.” PeopleIfsThinkingStoriesMovingCuttingEuropeThese DaysSensibilityFragmented Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.” WritingChildrenStoriesHouseSawsPiecesDadEuropeMumSydney Author:Markus Zusak
“When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention. We encourage reinvention. That's what this country has that Europe does not. It's not just a crisis; it's an opportunity.” DoeCountryStoriesOpportunityEuropeCrisisBottomTolerateBankruptcyReinvention Author:Michael Lewis
“I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.” FirstsKindStillsI CanDifferentStoriesAmericaMovingDifferencesStruggleDevelopmentConversationSmartEuropeWork OutHeyImmigrantsLockedRefugee Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.” WritingBookStoriesTodayFacesThreeSocialCenturyEmpathyEuropeTraditionPressureEnjoyedNovelistsCourageousCriticizeTimingHonorableParallelsFreethinkerWeavingNotoriousErudition Author:Joscelyn Godwin
“What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.” PeopleStillsSometimesStoriesAmericaPoliticalEuropeHarderRootedSomewhere ElseForeigners Author:Liam Gillick
“I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.” PeopleWayStoriesMotherTvsEuropeAreasEntertainmentPeasants Author:Jack Kirby
“That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRealStoriesFilmEuropeLuckFranceHatsTerritoryWowVirginsSwitzerlandReal YouGallonsRedundantWyoming Author:Thomas Bidegain
“From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.” Has BeensStoriesEuropeSuccess Stories Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.” StoriesAmericaNamesEuropeRootsGreekLatinArchetypeLatin And Greek Author:Maynard James Keenan
“There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.” BelieveLooksLittlesLongStillsStoriesEyeFoundDifficultChanceKnownFailingGroupsCenturyStrangeTheoryLoversPureEuropeUltimateCatholicBillsDollarsPlotVoidConspiracyAnarchistPyramids19th CenturyShiverMasonsMasonicDollar BillsWhen All Else FailsSingle Eye Author:Thomas Pynchon
“My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.” StoriesNamesAdventureReaderEuropeFunny TravelBreakthroughStory Writers Author:Terry Brooks