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I'm just basically telling a story of my life. -- Jose Canseco
In my family, telling stories is just a way of life. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. -- Anthony Horowitz
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. -- William Throsby Bridges
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. -- Yayoi Kusama
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. -- Joseph Jacobs
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. -- Gloria Steinem
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. -- Elie Wiesel
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
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. -- Simon Callow
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. -- Taylor Swift
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews... those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way. -- Joe Bastianich
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 grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father. -- Cam Newton
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
I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. -- Helen Hunt
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies. -- Stephen Daldry
I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do. -- David Tennant
I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially. -- James Salter
Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life. -- Lee Clow
Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them. -- Kate Rockland
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. -- Floyd Abrams
There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive. -- Jaco Van Dormael
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another. -- Lindsay Lohan
Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about. -- Rachel Maddow
Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must. -- Soko

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