Telling Stories Quotes - Page 7

• 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 love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

  Christopher Paolini

  Grateful, Writing, Stories

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Thinking, Safe Haven

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.

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• God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.

  Andrew Peterson

  Song, Writing, Mean

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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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• Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Impact, People

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• All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

  Kalle Lasn

  Song, Top Down, Agency

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• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  Ice T

  Hollywood, Cinema, Stories

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• However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

  Edward Zwick

  Philosophical, Stories, Agendas

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• I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Thinking, Stories, Care

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• I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

  Dan Harmon

  Thinking, Generations, Stories

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• Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.

  John Barth

  Art, Mean, Men

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group

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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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• 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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• 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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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, Mean

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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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• I like telling stories.

  Hunter Parrish

  Stories

  "Exclusive: Hunter Parrish Talks WEEDS Season 7". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows, and talk about maybe writing some songs together. We started doing that, and then one thing led to another and it became this Vampire project - because he was telling stories about all those days, which were fascinating.

  Johnny Depp

  Song, Writing, Dark

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

  Katie Holmes

  Character, Mean, Good Movie

  "Katie Holmes, Michael Caine for “Batman Begins”". Interview, www.darkhorizons.com. June 14, 2005.

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• For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

  Kristi Jacobson

  Real, People, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

  Mike Berenstain

  Children, Parent, Stories

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

  Jeff Probst

  Stories

  "Probst Dishes 'Survivor' Drama, 'Men' Appearance". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

  Soko

  Inspiration, Trying, Stories

  "Sleeping, Dreaming and Making Art: Soko Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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