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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck

Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words. — Will Schwalbe

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera. — Suraj Sharma

They're telling you to blend in,
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade. — Andrea Gibson

Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly — K.A. Young

If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day. — Michael Kelly

Brandt would need to do something. Something drastic. Something like ... tell him the truth. Fucking hell, Brandt hated telling the truth. — Abigail Roux

It was like some unseen force telling me you were it. Not to let you go. And every time I saw you with him ... I couldn't breathe. — Carly Phillips

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. — Ted Morgan

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control. — Beth Orton

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller. — Ray Brown

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. — Jim Barksdale

I have every right to go out tonight and fuck anyone I like, little girl. What I'm telling you is that I don't want to fuck anyone else. — Lilly Black

Do you know what it's like to hear those words? To hear the person you love telling you they love you, too? If you don't now, I hope you do one day. — Rachel Ward

I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like. — Adam Hills

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song. — Becky G

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead. — T-Pain

I'm telling you - guys like Gavin, they're real snakes in the grass. — Heather Demetrios

Don't you ever feel
like you're just
a story someone is telling
about someone like you? — Catherynne M Valente

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling. — Martin Freeman

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself! — Erle Stanley Gardner

And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye. — James Kelman

Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. — John Hodgman

Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky — Brandon Mull

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession. — David Burge

I believe in telling it like it is. — Alma Jean Irving

Unfortunately, telling me not to worry is like telling someone not to breathe. It's impossible, and is my default setting. — T.C. Edge

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people. — Jill Johnston

Truth is like beauty; it lies in the mind of the beholder — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do. — Sky Ferreira

When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you. — Iman

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet. — A.J. Darkholme

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. — Gayle Forman

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story. — Catherynne M Valente

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. — Chris Cleave

Creative work in companies is like going fishing, but with a gun pointed to your head telling you to hurry up or you are out! — Robert Gerlach

I don't like the taste it leaves in my mouth. ... Besides, OJ tastes better.

Is that supposed to be a pun? If so, I'm telling on you. — Fawn Routson

He said not to worry. But it's there. The worry. I can't help it. It's like telling me not to have brown eyes. I have brown eyes. I'm worried. — Lisa Genova

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters. — Tommy Lasorda

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

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself. — Derek Raymond

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left - a detail, but not a telling one. — David Sedaris

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales. — Andrew Biss

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation. — Donald Miller

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune

Telling me your name wouldn't kill you.
Did you hear me tell you my name's Mitch? I'd really like to hear you use it when I'm fucking you later. — Kindle Alexander

Maybe it's our bodies' way of telling us we were meant to be. Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something. — Lauren Barnholdt

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire."

~ Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try. — Tom Holt

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet. — Tina Fey

I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like. — Noor Iskandar

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories. — Lindsey Kelk

Telling a dream is like undressing. — Tess Castleman

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be! — Esther Hicks

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone. — Tristan Prettyman

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. — Alexander McCall Smith

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod

I consider telling him the truth. That if I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life — Colleen Hoover

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. — Mignon McLaughlin

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer. — J. Richard Singleton

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness — Maureen Johnson

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. — Megan McCafferty

could hear Rico's ass laughing in the background like I was some nigga on Comedy Central telling jokes and shit — Lucinda John

Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing. — Will Bly

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use. — Knut Hamsun

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out. — Cassandra Clare

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated. — Anupam Kher