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  • There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story. -- Susanna Hoffs
  • It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you. -- Warren Spector
  • When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good. -- Carlton Cuse
  • When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story. -- Tracy Martin
  • Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do. -- Donna Tartt
  • The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story. -- John Cleese
  • You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. -- Tom Hanks
  • Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. -- Val Kilmer
  • Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. -- Ruth Ozeki
  • When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. -- Sophie Marceau
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  • If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. -- Tom Wilkinson
  • Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. -- Gloria Naylor
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth. -- Eve Ensler
  • We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique. -- Andrew Stanton
  • 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 think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others. -- Eve Ensler
  • Make your life a story worth telling, -- Adam Braun
  • A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. -- Marty Rubin
  • Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling. -- Jairek Robbins
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  • Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it! -- Rhonda Byrne
  • Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. -- Hillel F. Damron
  • Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. -- Jordan Belfort
  • I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. -- Miriam Toews
  • Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility. -- Philip Gerard
  • If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself! -- Erle Stanley Gardner
  • If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener. -- Natalie Portman
  • You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling. -- Jeff Bridges
  • The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. -- John Darnielle
  • When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story," he said. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. -- Stephen King
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