“I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to, really...because we're just not that different. So if you think, 'Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I can't possibly talk about that,' and you write about it, the audience is gonna be like, 'that happened to me!” IfsThinkingWritingI CanDifferentRealityCommunityAudienceComedyGenerationsHappenedHuman NatureFiguresMadnessUnityRelateNot AfraidEmbarrassing Author:David Sedaris
“For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want.” PeopleWayWantHelpingFatherSocialAudienceHappenedTypeConversationTheaterRelateRelevance Author:Ric Roman Waugh
“For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.” TryingChildrenLittlesSaidCharacterStoriesImaginationEnvironmentHappenedEventsResearchRelateMy Imagination Author:Uwem Akpan
“I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me.” PeopleKnowsNiceHappenedStreetsFameRelateStardom Author:Steve McQueen
“I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.” KnowsWayWritingTryingMindIdeasWantedRememberMovingArtistSoundActingClassWonderfulHappenedPaperIntellectualDrawsCommunicateRelatePerformingPretentiousPerforming ArtsSeminarsBodhisattvaPerforming Artist Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.” PeopleIfsHas BeensBookSpeakHappenedJourneyFansParticularAppreciateUniversalRelateHardshipOpen Book Author:Kevin Hart
“I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindStoriesJobsSongHappenedSingersRelateSongwritersReally CoolSinger Songwriters Author:Gabrielle Aplin
“I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.” WorldWritingTryingStoriesTalkingHappenedScreensMemoirPostsRelateNarrativeBloggingWriting Poems Author:Staceyann Chin