Storyteller Quotes - Page 7

• I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the table in terms of affecting the public discourse would be Oliver Stone. His combination of academic brilliance and real life experience and just understanding people I think is what makes him such a great storyteller, but also he cares. He is interested. He meets somebody and he listens to them. He has some questions. He wants to know what they're about. And as a result I think his worldview is much more complex and whole and most of the other.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Father, Real, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Husband, Home, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are some actors that are great stars and storytellers, but not necessarily good actors. I'm talking about some - not all - of the people you see in action flms or blockbusters. They're film stars, though not necessarily great actors. And there are those who are great actors, but not necessarily big film stars. Jim Sturgess is both. He's quite obviously a star, the audience likes him, he's a great storyteller and he turned out to be one of the greatest actors I've worked with as well.

  Philip Ridley

  People, Action, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  Alan Rickman

  Needs, Stories, Thanks

  "Alan Rickman says goodbye to 'Harry Potter' in a published letter to J.K. Rowling, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2011.

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• You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

  Joss Whedon

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

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• I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

  Rachel Weisz

  Actors, Entertainers

  "I'm a storyteller. I don't save lives". www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2005.

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• It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  America, Stories, Boxers

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• I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Painting, Periods

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• Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wwe, Innovation, Kind

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• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Dirty, Inspiration

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• Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

  Kevin Spacey

  Film, Capacity, Yearning

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

  Wilbur Smith

  Want, Wells, Manipulator

  "Connect the World" with Becky Anderson, edition.cnn.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

  Tim Robbins

  Views, Two Sides, Political

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• I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you look at any one of my short stories or novels, they sort of unscroll cinematically. Every scene is concrete in my mind. I can walk around the room and pick things up. I can describe at length every feature on the character, though I might only supply a glimpse of this on the page. So if I'm writing color into that I'm also writing texture, I'm pushing the image more than anything else.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

  Ben Sollee

  Musician, Roles, Care

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• Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

  Tori Amos

  Empowering, Songwriters, Vulnerability

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• We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

  Bill Harley

  People, Giving, Trying

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• I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really feel like it prepared me to be a storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Growing Up, Children, Hero

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

  Curtis Hanson

  Lovers, Distinction, Cinematic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

  Eden Robinson

  Writing, Relief, Able

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

  Brad Mehldau

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Enjoy, Take Time

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands.

  Amanda Peet

  Jobs, Mean, Love Is

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stories, Matter, Reason

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.352, Random House

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