Storyteller Quotes - Page 13

• My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

  Ed Kashi

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Literature

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• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  Barry Levinson

  Break Up, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

  Robert McKee

  Laughter, Hate, Fall

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Mother, Inspiration, Writing

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• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  Bernie Mac

  Stupid, Shoes, Voice

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• I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

  James Patterson

  Mean, Compassion, People

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• I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

  Tyler Perry

  Directors, Looks, Stories

  "Tyler Perry Responds To Spike Lee Rivalry: 'I’ve Always Been A Fan Of His' (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

  Josh Radnor

  Responsibility, Dark, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

  John C. Reilly

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

  T. J. Thyne

  Opportunity, Lucky, World

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• I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  College, Thinking, Light

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• Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

  Noah Richler

  Heart, Desire, Want

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• What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Thinking, Fire

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1775, Macmillan

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• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Country, Father, Past

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  Bernie Mac

  Laughing, Flip, Needs

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Tangled, Trying, Stories

  "Daniel Day-Lewis On Creating A Voice From The Past". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

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• Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Motivation, Character, Stories

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jul 21, 2013

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• To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Growing Up, Adults, Stories

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• I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

  Diablo Cody

  Screenwriting

  "Oscar-winning stripper-turned-screenwriter feels the backlash of fame", www.ocregister.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

  Lionel Richie

  Country

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

  Marian Keyes

  Mother

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• It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reality, House, Parent

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• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  Daniel Dae Kim

  Taken, Journey, Thinking

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• Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

  Norman Jewison

  Looks, Want, Documentaries

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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