Storyteller Quotes - Page 8

• I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

  Brené Brown

  Sorry, Hard Times, Who I Am

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

  Brené Brown

  Smart, Training, Scare

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

  Adrian Grenier

  Law, Ideas, Guy

  "Adrian Grenier: Producer and Entourage Actor Talks About the Lonely Whale". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.

  Brené Brown

  Two, People, Needs

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Art, Children, Passion

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

  Cate Blanchett

  Fate, Thinking, Destiny

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.

  Kevin Allen

  Heart, Leader, Firsts

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

  Adam Rapp

  Years, Lasts, I've Learned

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

  Adam Rapp

  Directors, Matter, Hats

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They were just exciting people. And I knew that they were different when I would go see a friend or stay at someone else's house. It just wasn't as cool. So I always loved the theater, and that's where I started: at a theater up in Canada.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  People, House, Canada

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Musical, Chance

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Intuition, Vision, Masters

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
  Absently he replied, "I was, once."
  "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
  "I live."
  "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, Three

  "Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One". Book by Stephen Donaldson, 2013.

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• Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Liars, Never Trust

  Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

  Larry Clark

  Book, Years, Ifs

  "Larry Clark’s Americ". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Lap, Trouble

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• I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It's been very much a part of my makeup.

  Armistead Maupin

  Kids, Makeup, Ghost

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a narrative and someone is listening to that. Often the nature of the relationship is determined by how well they tell the story, or someone else's ability to suspend disbelief, or infuse into their narrative something which they may not even be aware of.

  Atom Egoyan

  People, Listening, Determined

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

  Nina Jacobson

  Character, Important, Directors

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.

  Harrison Ford

  Team, Skills, Effort

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

  Lauryn Hill

  Sex, Rapper, Needs

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• I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

  Natalie Massenet

  Believe, Media, Editors

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• I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

  Paul Bettany

  Empowering, Directors, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

  Phil Keoghan

  Special, Hollywood, Captives

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

  Paul Bettany

  Self, Bully, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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