Storytelling Quotes - Page 13

• I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

  Don Hewitt

  Children, People, Stories

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Kitchen

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• Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

  Daniel Taylor

  Broken, Healthy, Stories

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• For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Giving, Listening

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• What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

  Chinweizu Ibekwe

  People, Stories, Kind

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• Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

  James Carroll

  Memories, Stories, Definitions

  James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Problem, Ends

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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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• All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Stories, Shows

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• Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

  George Lucas

  Loyalty, Stars, War

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• I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

  Orlando Bloom

  Things In Life, Stories, Bland

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• Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

  Jeremy Northam

  Jobs, Heart, Fiction

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

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• When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

  Aristotle

  Results, Decadence

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• I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

  Michael Shannon

  Dark, People, Pay

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• Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

  Aaron Stanford

  Love Is, Giving, Interesting

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• My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

  Aaron Stanford

  Book, Secret, Acting

  "Q&A – Aaron Stanford (Horace Cook, Jr.)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• Storytelling is about listening in any media.

  Chris Vance

  Media, Listening

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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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• 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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• I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

  Brian De Palma

  Trying, Kind, Obsession

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

  George Lucas

  Stories, Life Is, My Time

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Photography, Running, Crazy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Confusing, Fans, Whimsical

  "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

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• I am and will always be a HUGE Star Wars Geek and wanted to study film making. I really am not a fan of writing- I prefer storytelling and rather jump to storyboards to relay my vision then a lot of wordy words.

  Holly Golightly

  Stars, War, Writing

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

  Kevin Spacey

  Audience, Gaming

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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