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• Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

  Linda Simon

  Voice, Village, Century

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• A good story needs only a good storyteller.

  Richard Bausch

  Needs, Stories, Good Story

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• As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.

  Damon Lindelof

  Book, People, Degrees

  "Damon Lindelof Talks THE LEFTOVERS, Looking Towards Future Seasons, Comparisons to LOST, Leaving Twitter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2014.

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• Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. Makeup artists, actor, whatever. To graduate from just that to storyteller.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Jobs, Artist, Makeup

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

  John Ridley

  Emotion, Worried

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Office, Special

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• Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.

  Sadie Calvano

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Sadie Calvano discusses CBS’ dramatic comedy". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 18, 2014.

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• Jesus was a storyteller with amazing messages wrapped around them. What we want to do is get back to that. I'm not a preacher. I'm not the person on Sunday. I am the person that is trying to figure out life and wants to be pushed to be a better person. The first one that we're in production with right now is called Nouvelle Vie.

  Drew Waters

  Jesus, Sunday, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

  Stephen King

  Book, House, Way

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

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• Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Taught Us, Born, Humans

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• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  Patricia Briggs

  Gratitude, Please Me, Play

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• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  PJ Harvey

  Growing Up, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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• [I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

  Orson Welles

  Mistake, Tired, Thinking

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• The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Country, Tradition

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• The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight.

  Ben Okri

  Heart, Eye, Community

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• Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Crazy, People, Community

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• A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Real, Details, Architecture

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• A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

  Ben Okri

  Heart, People, Mad

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• That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

  Walt Disney

  Order, Imagination, Again And Again

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• If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

  George Pelecanos

  Stories, Ends, Ifs

  George Pelecanos (2010). “The Way Home”, p.282, Hachette UK

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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Stories, Literature

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• The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

  Walter Benjamin

  Children, Needs, Stories

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

  William Maxwell

  Memories, Lying, Emotional

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.28, Random House

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• All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, World, Morality

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

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• Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

  Alice Hoffman

  Art, Real, Reading

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