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• I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

  Jim Carrey

  Play, Acting, Stories

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

  John Carpenter

  Passion, Fans, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stories

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great landscapes of my childhood because he used to evoke it with his stories. He taught me the sequence of ranks in the British army when I was about eight. I was in the bed with him while he told me everything about his life - except, probably, the real things, because of course you couldn't go there.

  Sebastian Barry

  Real, Army, Eight

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• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Dad, Wall, Berlin

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

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• Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Boys

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

  John C. McGinley

  Games, Ideas, Way

  "John C. McGinley's ABCs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Play, Guy, Risk

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• I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

  David Morrissey

  Challenges, Acting, Stories

  "David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

  Paul McGann

  Real, Tough, Film

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• I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'

  Christopher Lennertz

  Jobs, Style, Different

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• I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

  Anthony Davis

  Writing, Voice, Opera

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• I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

  Ben Macintyre

  Secret, Stories

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• I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

  Nathan Fillion

  Great Day, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

  Stella Adler

  Teacher, Real, Character

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• I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Stories, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

  Art Donovan

  Art, Talking, Laughing

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Important, Stories, Way

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• I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

  Christine Vachon

  Trying, Stories, Filmmaker

  "SXSW: The 8 Best Things Christine Vachon Said at Her Keynote" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Appreciate, Purpose, Stories

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

  JoAnn Ross

  Mother, Book, Stories

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• In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

  John Grisham

  Rain, Men, Talking

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• I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Father, Idols

  Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.

  William Gibson

  Hbo, Wire, Television

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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