Storyteller Quotes - Page 15

• This is what we storytellers do.  We restore order with imagination.

  Tom Hanks

  Order, Imagination

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• I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

  Jack Zipes

  Roles

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• We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

  Tanith Lee

  Art, Needs, Ancient

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• While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Nerves

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

  Ian Doescher

  Growing Up, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Character, Thinking, Space

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• As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to choose the collaborators. That's really gratifying as a storyteller. And also, frankly, it's really fun to create jobs for other people.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Jobs, Fun, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.

  Vik Muniz

  Talking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very own way and very unique way of telling a story. And there's a lot to be learned from each country, and each language, and how they tell a story.

  Mido Hamada

  Country, Unique, Language

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

  Stan Lee

  Source: www.ign.com

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• It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, Phoenix

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

  Judy Collins

  Coffee, Passion, Ideas

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

  Joe Sabia

  Book, Technology, Years

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• When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Reflection, Thinking

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.329, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Want

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• I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Issues, Political, Intellectual

  "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

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• Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

  Oliver North

  Reader

  "Meeting 'We the People'" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Interesting, Eras, Certain

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• I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Entertainers

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• Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

  Ron Franscell

  Sweat, Pages, Born

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• Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Song, Teenage, Drama

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• I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

  Jackie French

  Book, Thinking, World

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

  Susan Stroman

  Father, Big Fish, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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