“Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.” PeopleThinkingEnoughStoriesHappensSexInterestingTelevisionSellsTunesCablesNudityDaytime Author:Jack Wagner
“Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell "my" sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.” PeopleReasonStoriesShowsSexAudienceMembersStudiosSex Change Author:Eileen Davidson
“The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.” BelieveHumansStillsStatesPlayStoriesFallSexSinViewsHuman NatureOriginalsProfoundInnocenceConceptionSinfulness Author:E. M. Forster
“When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.” IfsWayFeelsStoriesMotherFatherSexEasyStageGoes OnIndustrySorryObjectivesHeyIf I CouldSailingMikeMother And FatherPolitically CorrectTysonPortrayingDoing MePimp Author:Mike Tyson
“Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.” KindLittlesRealStoriesSexWonderLaughingCarTownsTalesCommandAll KindsTallBottlesDominationClownCircusDeep DownLeatherInvolvingKinkyTall Tales Author:John S. Hall
“Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.” MenCountryStoriesAmericaDesireSexAttitudeGroupsWorstArmsGrewDrinkCivilizationGrew UpRemainsWesternPatternsAdvertisingObsessedLeisureAmerican HistoryConsumptionFamily LifeWestern CivilizationMicrocosmCoca ColaFunny StorySoft Drinks Author:Mark Pendergrast
“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.” IfsThinkingWantWellsEndsStoriesSeemsSexViolenceTvsLike YouGrandmotherAfternoonOperaSoapCablesSoap OperasCinematographyYour Grandmother Author:William Monahan
“There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.” WritingChildrenBookDifferentStoriesCareCoursesSexDifferencesAttentionViolenceReaderAdultsExtremes Author:Michael Scott
“Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.” WellsStoriesSexFoodDressesMagazinesThirtyJerseyNew JerseyDietingWell DressedThermometersTestimonial Author:Erma Bombeck
“No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.” MenWantEndsStoriesSexAttractiveDoomed Author:Nora Ephron
“If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.” IfsKnowsWritingStoriesSexPartyGroupsSafeFinanceNervousTerritoryEdgy Author:Maeve Binchy
“Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.” StoriesLanguageSexLove StoryInnocentJournalismNeutralityInnocent Love Author:Nawal El Saadawi