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• Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

  Ron Franscell

  Sweat, Pages, Born

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• The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?"

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Sibling, Moving, Asking Questions

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Song, Teenage, Drama

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• I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

  Jackie French

  Book, Thinking, World

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

  Susan Stroman

  Father, Big Fish, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

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• I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

  Larry Clark

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

  Stan Lee

  Source: www.ign.com

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• While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Nerves

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

  Ian Doescher

  Growing Up, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Character, Thinking, Space

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• As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to choose the collaborators. That's really gratifying as a storyteller. And also, frankly, it's really fun to create jobs for other people.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Jobs, Fun, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.

  Vik Muniz

  Talking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very own way and very unique way of telling a story. And there's a lot to be learned from each country, and each language, and how they tell a story.

  Mido Hamada

  Country, Unique, Language

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

  Robert Hunter

  Jobs, Light, Voice

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

  David Farland

  Powerful, Real, Unique

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• When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'

  John Romita, Sr.

  Jobs, Book, Artist

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• Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.

  Greg Pak

  Book, Reading, Character

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• I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Stories, Want, Way

  "Samuel L. Jackson Talks Big Game, Playing the President, the Blob Remake, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.

  Ben Kingsley

  Mean, Healing, Careers

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks THE BOXTROLLS, His Career, Voicing Bagheera in THE JUNGLE BOOK, The Mandarin, EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS, and More at Comic-Con". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Play, People, Mad

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Fans, Levels

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.

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• It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

  J. Cole

  Rapper, Guarantees, Coincidence

  "VIBE Summer 2013 Cover: J. Cole And Nas". Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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