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• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  J.H. Wyman

  Stories, Human Condition, Humans

  "Fringe Showrunner J.h. Wyman Talks About the Final Episodes". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. December 5, 2012.

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• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Kings, Years, 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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• The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

  Johnny Reid

  Song, Singing, Playing Music

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Would Be, Stories, Misery

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2010.

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• My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.

  Andrew Luck

  Dad, Growing Up, College

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• I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

  David Alan Basche

  People, Laughing, Stories

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• I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

  J. Cole

  Heart, Long, Hip Hop

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Art, College, People

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.5, Penguin

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• I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Stupid, Character, Voice

  "Gabriel Iglesias talks about 'The Fluffy Movie', his life and cake". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

  Kurt Busiek

  Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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• It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!

  Timothy Dalton

  Fun, Acting, Fiction

  "Timothy Dalton talks 'Chuck,' 'The Tourist,' and, of course, Bond". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.ew.com. November 1, 2010.

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• What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

  Marc Forster

  Mean, Stories, Passionate

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

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• I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.

  T. J. Thyne

  Days Off, Stories, Actors

  "Wetpaint Exclusive: TJ Thyne Is Single and Ready to Mingle!". Interview with Ian Spiegelman, www.wetpaint.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

  Colm Meaney

  Directors, Actors, Kind

  "Q&A – Colm Meaney (Thomas Durant)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Stories, Wanted, Playwright

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

  John Cena

  Wrestling, Long, Acting

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• I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

  Anna Camp

  Bread Pudding, Laughing, Parent

  "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

  Sara Paretsky

  Thinking, Ponies, Stories

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• When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

  Dave Grohl

  Focus, Stories, Done

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• I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, Absence, Enjoy

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

  Tim Walker

  Butterfly, College, Stories

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• When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Life, Women, Together

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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