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There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio. -- Danny Bonaduce
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. -- Greil Marcus
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes. -- Albert Finney
I've always thought my poems told stories. -- Douglas Dunn
When I was a little kid, I told stories. -- Stephen Tobolowsky
Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps -- George MacKay
We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. -- Dejan Stojanovic
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. -- Cornelia Funke
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I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories. -- Art Alexakis
There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color. -- Kerry Washington
There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them. -- Yahoo Serious
I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories. -- Mary Pope Osborne
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail -- Greil Marcus
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. -- Neil Gaiman
I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine. -- Jill Sobule
I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about. -- John D. Voelker
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. -- Alan Rickman
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves. -- George Eliot
I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color. -- Bill Engvall
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead -- Terry Pratchett
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. -- Paulo Coelho
All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired. -- Cynthia Voigt
Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade. -- Mark Ruffalo
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried. -- Drew Carey
I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories. -- Carolyn Hax
Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door. -- Jane Yolen
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it! -- Gautama Buddha
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called. -- James Hillman
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time. -- Dan Brown
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well. -- Khaled Hosseini
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories. -- Art Alexakis
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. -- Henry Rollins
My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me. -- Jackie Mason
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important. -- James McAvoy
she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock -- Sherman Alexie
Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out. -- Ruth Ozeki
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. -- Tobias Wolff
The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way. -- Katherine Paterson
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories. -- Anselm Kiefer
I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here. -- Logan Lerman
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud. -- Biz Stone
Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle. -- Richard Whately
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales. -- Michel Ocelot
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition. -- Paule Marshall
In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on. -- Kenneth Fisher
art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings ... -- Marie Bashkirtseff
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling. -- Lynn Collins
When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time. -- James Arthur Ray
My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and it had got rid of the rats. Apparently rats like violins and pianos but they can't stand the accordion -- Jeanette Winterson
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around. -- Alexander Payne
I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. -- Ben Okri
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers. -- J. Cole
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. -- Howie Mandel
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate. -- Maya Angelou
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about. -- Donald Miller
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. -- Ben Okri
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy. -- Martha Beck
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. -- Salman Rushdie
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. -- Alan Rickman
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. -- Leon Wieseltier
The first story I finished was when I was six years old. -- J. K. Rowling
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. -- David Soul
Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. -- Ruth Rendell
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. -- Margaret Thatcher
As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story. -- Len Wiseman
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. -- John Updike
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians. -- Joely Fisher
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. -- Travis Tritt
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. -- John Scott
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. -- Tanith Lee
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories. -- Brett Ratner
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order. -- Story Musgrave
That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there. -- Story Musgrave
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. -- Sharon Olds
Old stories often turn out to be true. -- Arthur Machen
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old. -- Salman Rushdie
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. -- Garrison Keillor
Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan. -- Kami Garcia
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence? -- Terry Pratchett
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders -- Tom Berenger
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders. -- Tom Berenger
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. -- George R. R. Martin
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that. -- Philip Pullman
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do. -- Dave Bautista
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. -- Ray Bradbury
A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain -- Stephen King
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. -- Zhang Yimou
There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them. -- Charles Soule
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. -- Steve Earle
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart. -- James Altucher
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. -- Ian Hislop
Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new. -- Salman Rushdie
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. -- Aaron Sorkin
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? -- Dave Grohl
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book. -- Shelby Lynne
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis. -- Lee Gutkind

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