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When you're telling a story, you've got to give details. — Gao Xingjian

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

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'll be at Lambeth telling my story — Gene Robinson

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. — Keith Richards

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. — Floyd Abrams

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

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. — John Patrick Shanley

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. — Joss Whedon

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree. — Robert Holdstock

Other kids grew up telling stories about the Pilot," Caleb says. "But I grew up watching him fly. — Ally Condie

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. — Joe Berlinger

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story? — Yann Martel

Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four. — Avijeet Das

Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

By developing a habit of telling ourselves stories about what's going on around us, we learn to sharpen where our attention goes. These — Charles Duhigg

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. — Catherine Hardwicke

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

When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language. — Philip Pullman

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop. — Demetri Martin

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

When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is. — Shauna Niequist

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business. — Baz Luhrmann

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me. — Janet Evanovich

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives. — James Hetfield

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling. — Brene Brown

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices. — Sarah Kay

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro

But most of our time was spent telling stories. We had so little in common that stories were all that we could share. — Patrick Rothfuss

That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories. — James D. Bradley

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present. — Natasha Tsakos

The mind never stops telling stories - not even when we're asleep. — Russ Harris

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining. — Gabriel Iglesias

There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story. — Marty Rubin

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. — Jeanette Winterson

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling. — Andrew Lennon

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story. — George V. Higgins

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

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. — Seth Shostak

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

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. — John Sweeney

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me. — Kate Grenville

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people. — Michael Franti

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

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. — Aeriel Miranda

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera. — Bill Frakes

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland. — Walter Isaacson

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different. — Rick Heinrichs

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up. — Martin Shaw

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