Telling Stories Quotes

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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.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

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

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

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.

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.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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

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.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

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

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

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.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

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

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

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

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.

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

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

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.

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