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It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. -- Rebecca Hall
I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. -- Michael Fassbender
Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God -- Rumi
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. -- Stephen King
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. -- Jonathan Gottschall
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. -- Alain de Botton
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. -- Michael Shermer
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. -- J. J. Abrams
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
I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.' -- Christopher Lennertz
Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting. -- John Cena
I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters. -- Danae Elon
Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. -- Steve Buscemi
I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories. -- Jane Goodall
I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And it can also be practically very nice for a family man to have 9 months out of the year where you're in the city, where you're close to your home. -- Chris Pratt
I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories. -- J. California Cooper
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time. -- Agnes Varda
I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor. -- Jake M. Johnson
I like telling stories. -- Hunter Parrish
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. -- Kurt Busiek
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. -- Henry Rollins
The human race has been telling stories since it began. -- Doris Lessing
Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever. -- Jim Crace
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories. -- Dan Harmon
Literature is about telling stories. -- Amos Oz
So much of science proceeds by telling stories. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories. -- Phil Keoghan
I would spend my time telling stories or writing them. -- Robert Mugabe
In my family, telling stories is just a way of life. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Most of my books came from when I was telling stories. -- Robert Munsch
I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. -- David S. Goyer
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me. -- Marc Forster
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. -- Ben Macintyre
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. -- Kathryn Stockett
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. -- Kelly Sue DeConnick
I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs. -- Gina Rodriguez
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. -- John Green
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. -- Anthony Davis
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. -- Val Kilmer
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels." -- Val Kilmer
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. -- Howard Nemerov
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. -- Ruth Ozeki
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. -- Junot Diaz
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. -- Kelsey Chow
Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories. -- Nicholas Dawidoff
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. -- Sophie Marceau
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. -- Steve Buscemi
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories. -- Robin Marantz Henig
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with -- Sophie Marceau
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. -- J. H. Wyman
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it. -- David Alan Basche
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it. -- David Alan Basche
I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people. -- Bob Saget
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off. -- T. J. Thyne
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different. -- Rick Heinrichs
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. -- Sara Paretsky
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I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories. -- Christine Vachon
I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. -- Chris Pratt
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. -- Brit Marling
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. -- Lili Taylor
I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually. -- Asif Kapadia
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.' -- T. J. Thyne
My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor. -- Mike Berenstain
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting. -- David Morrissey
I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while. -- Luke Bracey
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful. -- Naomie Harris
I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid. -- Rabih Alameddine
My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. -- Taylor Swift
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. -- Sheila Nevins
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. -- Ted Dekker
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories. -- Seth Shostak
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. -- Kelly Jones
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. -- Seth Shostak
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. -- Olivier Dahan
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier. -- Oprah Winfrey
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. -- Romola Garai
I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of. -- Greg Berlanti
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. -- Joss Whedon
I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most. -- Jeff Probst
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick. -- Candace Bushnell
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. -- Ben Macintyre
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people. -- Michael Franti
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song. -- Becky G
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
The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game. -- John C. McGinley
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera. -- Bill Frakes
And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real -- Mary Oliver
Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing. -- Justin Chadwick
[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic." -- David Copperfield
I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to. -- Katie Holmes
I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me. -- Regina Spektor
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
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
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down. -- Stephen King
I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for. -- Christopher Paolini
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
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
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way. -- Alex Winter
I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. -- Dylan Penn
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process. -- Allison Mack
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch. -- Paul McGann
I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens. -- Marc Maron
More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling. -- Reese Witherspoon
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. -- Bryant Gumbel
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. -- Pamela Love
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. -- John Francis
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. -- Steven Spielberg
Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed. -- John Lasseter
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. -- Nick Antosca
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together. -- Sarah Zettel
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning. -- Chris Cavanaugh

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