Storytelling Quotes - Page 13

• I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

  Felicity Jones

  Exercise, Emotional, Brain

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our studio's area of focus. But I find that the creatives behind any kind of animation are typically very similar, and so regardless of what aesthetic they use to realize their vision, I'm usually pretty into it.

  Seth Green

  Focus, Vision, Use

  "Seth Green Talks ‘Yellowbird’, Animation, & Pop Culture Nostalgia". Interview with Andy Crump, screenrant.com. April 6, 2015.

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• I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Feelings, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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• 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

  Art, People, Analysis

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Weather, Rust

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• My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

  Philip Pullman

  Teacher, Real, Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

  Michael Franti

  Stars, War, Long

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• I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

  Mark Mathabane

  Mother, Children, Book

  Mark Mathabane (1986). “Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both have the hardness. When I come out on the mic, you know it's me.

  Black Rob

  Biggie, Stories, Actors

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• At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

  Kevin Spacey

  Simple, Long, People

  Source: www.skyword.com

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• 'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

  Chip Esten

  Country, Song, Heart

  "Interview: Charles Esten of “Nashville” says why he’s fighting for Deacon’s sobriety". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. February 6, 2013.

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• My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Goal, Design

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• When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.

  Frank Caliendo

  Winter, Voice, People

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• To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

  Beverly Jenkins

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

  Dave Gibbons

  Winning, Awards, Rope

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• What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Political, Demand, Moral

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

  Jane Yolen

  Promise, Desire, Way

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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• You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.

  John Updike

  Book, Design, Trying

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• Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Emotional, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.

  Aimee Bender

  Sadness, Skills, Brain

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• I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.

  Ethan Hawke

  Horse, Reality, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Odyssey, Iliad

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

  Howard Shore

  Different, Kind, Film

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• Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

  Bryan Talbot

  Real, Book, Character

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