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• Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

  Plato

  Hero, Stories, Leisure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.259, Xist Publishing

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• Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Healing, Dancing, Silence

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.16, New World Library

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• Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

  Nicolas Cage

  Pain, Opportunity, Use

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• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  Ted Lange

  Artist, Thinking, Should

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• For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Marketing, Principles, Needs

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• I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Narrative, Rock N Roll, Tradition

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking

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• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  Donna Tartt

  Reading, Practice, Style

  Barnes & Noble Interview, www.barnesandnoble.com.

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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Stories, Literature

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• Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

  Michael Shermer

  Animal, Stories, Patterns

  "Out of This World" by Michael Shermer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 21, 1999.

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• I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Magic, Culture

  Alan Moore, Bill Baker (2007). “Alan Moore on His Work and Career”, p.7, The Rosen Publishing Group

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• Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

  Eudora Welty

  Children, Long, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Real, Community, Personality

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• I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

  Anne Frank

  Life Changing, Writing, Kids

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Aug 12, 2015

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• In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other people-those who listen to our stories and, by doing so, bear witness with us.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Giving, People

  Victoria Alexander (1991). “In the wake of suicide: stories of the people left behind”, Jossey-Bass

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• Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

  Dan Harmon

  World, Littles, Needs

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• What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

  Wally Pfister

  Thinking, Support, Important

  Interview With Carrie Seidman, ticket.heraldtribune.com. October 16, 2012.

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• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Doe, Values

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• And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie based on these characters, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII in 2017, and we'll finish this trilogy with Episode IX in 2019.

  Bob Iger

  Stars, War, Character

  "Disney CEO Confirms STAR WARS EPISODE VIII and IX Release Dates" by Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. January 29, 2015.

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• Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

  James Genn

  Humanity, World, Might

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• I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or things that happened to us that affected our lives, things we can laugh about and shed a few tears about... I think storytelling is a way of saying 'I love you. I love you enough to tell you something that means a great deal to me.'

  Kathryn Tucker Windham

  Memories, Love You, Mean

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• Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Skills, Underrated

  Twitter post from

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• In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

  Joe Sabia

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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