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• The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Tools, Literature

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• I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cutting, Thinking, Stories

  "Amy Sedaris Likes To Watch You Cry". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

  David Eddings

  Stories, Prophet, Good Story

  "Fantasy master David Eddings dies aged 77" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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• David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Art, Character, Inquiry

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• I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Explorers

  " ‘The Act of Killing’ Director on Dreams, Recognition and Impact" by Joshua Oppenheimer, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2014.

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• An old Apache storyteller reminds us

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature

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• You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

  John Frankenheimer

  Mean, Tools, Stories

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• I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.

  Justin Simien

  Son, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

  Pamela Yates

  Struggle, Cinema, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

  Norman Jewison

  Looks, Want, Documentaries

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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• I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

  Etgar Keret

  Stories, Embarrassing, Discouraging

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• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  Daniel Dae Kim

  Taken, Journey, Thinking

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• My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

  Marian Keyes

  Mother

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• Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

  Lionel Richie

  Country

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Sneak In, People, Profound

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• Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

  Greg Berlanti

  Choices, Fans, Letters

  Source: variety.com

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• I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

  J. J. Abrams

  Grateful, Kids, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Thinking, Careers, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes not honoring your character makes for really good television, but that also can really upset fans. You have to turn things upside sometimes. As a storyteller, you have to know that sometimes you're going to let your fans and the audience down because you have to do your part in servicing the story.

  Azita Ghanizada

  Character, Upset, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Discipline, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

  Henry Rollins

  Love Is, Stories, Telling Stories

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• Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Photographer, Sometimes

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• Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

  Steve Antin

  Fun, Earth, Environment

  Source: collider.com

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• I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

  David Schwimmer

  Helping Someone, Stories, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.

  Susan Meiselas

  Perspective, Tourists, Encounters

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