Storytelling Quotes - Page 8

• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Important, Sound

  "What Inspires Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  Ed Sheeran

  Wicked, Fans, Stories

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

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• The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, Universal, Doctor Who

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

  Marion Woodman

  Children, Heart, Bored

  Marion Woodman (1992). “Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity”, Shambhala Publications

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• There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Country, Mean

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Holiday, Views

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• Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Age, Stories, Able

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• Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Writing, Kids

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.102, Bantam

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• You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

  Sandra Dallas

  Memories, People, Storyteller

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Stories, Matter, True Story

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  David Gemmell

  Children, Writing, Garden

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• Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Creative, Lucky

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• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

  Charlotte Rampling

  Character, Directors, Depth

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• I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche

  Tom Selleck

  Opportunity, Thinking, Risk

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• For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Art, Color, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Storytelling is the important thing.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Important, Important Things

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• I don't think there's a way to replace Stabler. The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

  Danny Pino

  Character, Thinking, Order

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• I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

  Demi Lovato

  Responsibility, Speaks Out, People

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• 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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