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Each song, you're telling a story and acting. -- Patti Page
I'm just basically telling a story of my life. -- Jose Canseco
I love being part of a company, and telling a story. -- Judi Dench
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. -- Joshua Bell
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. -- Keith Richards
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. -- Amanda Burton
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. -- Doris Lessing
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. -- Jean Dujardin
I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story. -- Tim Story
When you're telling a story, you've got to give details. -- Gao Xingjian
You can't really change the heart without telling a story. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear. -- Seth Godin
When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop. -- Demetri Martin
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. -- Tom Hanks
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Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values. -- Walt Disney
I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression. -- Bill Hader
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. -- Jackie Evancho
I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story. -- Donnie Yen
If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. -- John Hawkes
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. -- Alistair MacLeod
I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead. -- Brian K. Vaughan
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story. -- Maeve Binchy
I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way. -- Kristin Chenoweth
That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind. -- Matthew Weiner
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. -- Ian Somerhalder
Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. -- Antonio Damasio
I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it. -- G-Eazy
Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. -- Donald Kagan
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. -- Rita Webb
Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. -- Carl Sandburg
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. -- Marco Tempest
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time. -- Laurie Simmons
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story. -- Marco Tempest
There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story. -- Melanie Griffith
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. -- Joseph Boyden
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school. -- Mike Birbiglia
And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning. -- Edith Pattou
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. -- John Patrick Shanley
I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. -- Hironobu Sakaguchi
Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story. -- Ayn Rand
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else. -- Sabrina Carpenter
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. -- Gerard Way
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story. -- Gore Verbinski
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. -- Howard Gordon
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. -- George Lucas
I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story. -- John Waters
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character. -- Marc E. Platt
When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is. -- Kate Winslet
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. -- Salman Rushdie
When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment. -- Julie Davis
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. -- Vincent Cassel
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. -- Ira Glass
All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write. -- Lori Lesko
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up. -- Maeve Binchy
I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story. -- Patricia Field
I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story. -- Waris Ahluwalia
I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list. -- Matt Bomer
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining. -- Gabriel Iglesias
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. -- Bradley Whitford
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. -- Donald Davis
The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. -- Rashers Tierney
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. -- Aimee Mann
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul. -- Orhan Pamuk
I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story. -- Naturi Naughton
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. -- Penelope Lively
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video. -- Dominique Dawes
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. -- Tate Taylor
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually. -- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing. -- Danny Pino
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. -- Steven Spielberg
That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious. -- Lee Daniels
My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative. -- John Boyega
[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here. -- Maria V. Snyder
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. -- Viggo Mortensen
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear. -- Anne Enright
I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. -- Tamsin Greig
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story. -- Chris Riddell
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all. -- Bill Bryson
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. -- Dennis Muren
I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money. -- Zoe Saldana
My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie. -- Lee Daniels
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. -- Eric Bana
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. -- John Berger
I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas. -- Cameron Crowe
Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters. -- Vera Farmiga
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story. -- Sylvester McCoy
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. -- Jose Saramago
I always have the best story at the party. Anyone telling a story at a party is like, 'No, no, you've got to listen to my story!' I'm like, 'Step aside, everybody. I'm going to blow the doors off this place.' -- Mike Birbiglia
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian. -- Howard Zinn
Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, "Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I'll write Ulysses." -- Philip Pullman
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover. -- Sam Shepard
I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective. -- Cutter Hodierne
Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out. -- Sophia Amoruso
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author. -- Henning Mankell
I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans. -- Rian Johnson
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly. -- Sergio Aragones
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. -- Jeremy Renner
Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating. -- Stanley Kubrick
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills. -- George Orwell
I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh. -- Jared Padalecki
That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine. -- Shaun Sipos
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. -- Kurt Busiek
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me. -- Mike Epps
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. -- Henry Rollins
I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. -- Tori Amos
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while. -- Luke Bracey
I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid. -- Rabih Alameddine
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. -- Alice Munro
Story telling is joke telling. -- Andrew Stanton
I'll be at Lambeth telling my story -- Gene Robinson
Make your life a story worth telling, -- Adam Braun

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