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We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. — Casey Kasem

In the absence of facts ... we tell ourselves stories. — Noah Hawley

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. — John Slattery

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? — Scott Turow

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story. — Kim Edwards

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about. — Todd Lieberman

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it. — Mariel Hemingway

We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words. — C. JoyBell C.

We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. — Danielle Ganek

But we all live there, I thought to myself, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives. — Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves obscure our truths. — Ken Liu

Keep your Eyes on All that's Good and Beautiful and Possible in the World. Because "The Stories We Tell Create the People We Become. — Jacqueline Lewis

We all tell stories
to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits. — Shannon Donnelly

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see. — Sasha Alexander

In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves. — Michael Martone

If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out." — Viggo Mortensen

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action. — Tracy Letts

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them. — Susan Wittig Albert

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell. — Mary Anne Radmacher

When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows. — Cathy Ostlere

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell. — Donald Wuerl

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. — Sharon Salzberg

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent. — David Remnick

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture. — Andy Serkis

That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth. — Adrian Walker

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything — Nicola Yoon

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. — Laurie Anderson

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula. — Yahoo Serious

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. — Alan Kay

We tell each other stories to muffle the surprise of disappointment. — Kevin Moffett

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. — John Green

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell — Frank Turner

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world. — Yahoo Serious

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark. — Jessica Khoury

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different — Rohinton Mistry

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 stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community. — Mimi Kennedy

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone. — James Patterson

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people. — Rudy Wiebe

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story. — Steve Dildarian

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. — Jonathan Sacks

We live the stories we tell; the stories we don't tell live us. — Mark Doty

The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth. — Leonard Mlodinow

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct. — Christina Ricci

Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe. — Matthew D. Lieberman

Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it — Ken Dornstein

Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world. — Mike Carey

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world. — Stephen Graham Jones

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead. — Leah Hager Cohen

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do]. — Annie Leonard

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves. — Faith Prince

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. — Orson Scott Card

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. — Robert T. Bakker

Still, the night feels restless underneath me — Patti Callahan Henry

We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all. — Brent Weeks

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. — Joy Williams

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories. — Frank Spotnitz

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them. — Henri Nouwen

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. — Jim Crace

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. — Salman Rushdie

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life. — Maureen Murdock

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

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell. — Kate Atkinson

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. — Joyce Carol Oates

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them. — Afia Nathaniel

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people. — Kelly McCreary

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves. — Gina Greenlee

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don't even realize that they're just theories. — Byron Katie

We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore. — John Shelby Spong

History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told. — Julianne Malveaux

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker. — John Cusack

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves. — Tony Robbins

Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project. — Roy Osherove

A little self-doubt is a good thing," said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us. — Ken Liu

The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories. — Gary Vaynerchuk

That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth. — Bernie Mcgill

If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve. — Nicola Yoon

I find that unless we are very, very careful there can be a difference between who we are and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. I — Daniel Abraham

Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook. — Steve Inskeep

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives. — Andy Quan

we become the stories we tell ourselves — Michael Cunningham

Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation."
"These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell. — C.K. Walker

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories. — Karen Bass

History is the stories we tell about the past. — Thomas King

What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today? — Gloria D. Gonsalves

The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves — Melanie Greenberg

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them. — Stephanie Danler

it's the stories we tell ourselves that cause all the problems. If you look reality straight in the eye, you end up a lot less confused. — Nell Zink

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls. — Rumer Godden

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt