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  • ....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

    Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.208, Penguin
  • My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

    Rain   Men   Talking  
  • I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

    Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2009.
  • I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.

    Running   Rain   Laughing  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

    People   Stories   Want  
    "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.
  • This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black
  • All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

  • I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

    Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.
  • God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.

    Song   Writing   Mean  
  • When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

  • Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

    Book   Writing   Years  
  • My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

    Teacher   Real   Believe  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

    Believe   People   Battle  
    "Eric Balfour Exclusive Interview DO NOT DISTURB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.
  • I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.

    Eye   Cities   Shopping  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.

    Important   Stories   Way  
  • I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

    Stories   Absence   Enjoy  
    "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.
  • Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.

    Song   Children   Writing  
  • I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

  • I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

    "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". WEBY 1330AM Northwest Florida’s Talk Radio program 'Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense' host Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
  • I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

    Strong   Hate   Writing  
  • I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

    Tired   People   Office  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.

    Grief   People   Giving  
  • There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

    "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.
  • There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

    Kids   People   Adults  
    "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.
  • I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.

    "Jennifer Love Hewitt Interview LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2010.
  • Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

    "Out of This World" by Michael Shermer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 21, 1999.
  • What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

    Art   Mean   Sea  
    "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.npr.org. June 6, 2013.
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