Storytelling Quotes - Page 17

• I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

  David Plotz

  Numbers, People, Important

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.

  David Plotz

  Space, People, Want

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

  David Crabb

  Character, Years, Acting

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.

  Greg Bryk

  Character, Numbers, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

  Christopher Bollen

  Thinking, Climbing, Murder Mysteries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Growth, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Usual, Situation

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Together

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• I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Opportunity, Commerce, Visuals

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• They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.

  Tom Savini

  Zombie, Vampire, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside a book, you believe everything you're reading even when you know it's not true. And the second is an extension of that, which is you know it's not true, you know it's not real, but you believe it anyway. And it's that believing of the story that isn't real that attracted me to writing and storytelling in general.

  Markus Zusak

  Real, Believe, Book

  "Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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• I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

  Chris Albrecht

  Drama, Unique, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.

  Helen Mirren

  Imagination, World, Saws

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

  Bryan Fuller

  Plot, Shows, Happens

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

  Jaco Van Dormael

  Two, Differences, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Healing, Self

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• Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it. They are such good directors that it's perfectly possible to have conceptual and directorial and storytelling conversations about music without needing to know all the technical pieces.

  Henry Jackman

  People, Understanding, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Art, Stories, Cafes

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• In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

  Andrew Stanton

  Meals, Want, Audience

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• I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

  John Green

  Opportunity, Long, Literature

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• If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

  Scott Cohen

  Struggle, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.

  Uwem Akpan

  Jesus, Powerful, Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling.

  Josh Garrels

  Song, Epic, Thinking

  Interview with Charles Carman, www.curatormagazine.com. June 16, 2014.

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• With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

  Bob Shacochis

  Blood, Sweat, Iron

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