Storytelling Quotes - Page 10

• Storytelling is what lights my fire.

  Hope Davis

  Fire, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

  Walton Goggins

  Years, Gone, Ability

  "Walton Goggins' Unchained Melody". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

  Sol Stein

  Book, Writing, Tired

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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Rope

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• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

  Maria Tatar

  Hands, Magic, Enchantment

  Maria Tatar (2009). “Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

  Chris Wedge

  Independent, People, Groups

  "10 Questions: Chris Wedge". Interview with Brian Linder, www.ign.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Reading, Passion, Love Of Reading

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• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music

  Hans Zimmer

  Film Music, Movement, Way

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• The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.

  Daniel Quinn

  Successful, Events, Here And There

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• Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Eye, Design, Stories

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• Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

  Sarah Kay

  Want, Common, Poet

  "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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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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• The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Kind

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Adam Savage

  Forever, Stories, Done

  "The Truth About MythBusters". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

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• I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Feelings, Culture, Authority

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• If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.

  Christine Jones

  Interesting, Design, Support

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• I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Song, Powerful, Reality

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• Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Medicine, Needs, Stories

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