Storytelling Quotes - Page 18

• Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Emotional, Media, Two

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• I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Girl Crush Alert: How Sophia Bush Is Using Her Voice to Make a Difference" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 15, 2013.

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• What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Want, Scope

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• Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

  Aaron Stanford

  Love Is, Giving, Interesting

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• Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Eye, Design, Stories

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• Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

  Chris Wedge

  Independent, People, Groups

  "10 Questions: Chris Wedge". Interview with Brian Linder, www.ign.com. March 1, 2005.

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• I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

  Brian De Palma

  Trying, Kind, Obsession

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

  Russell Banks

  Allegiance, Has Beens, Majors

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• My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

  Eric Bana

  Writing, Creative, Television

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• I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Confusing, Fans, Whimsical

  "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

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• I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

  Alan Ball

  Stories, Process, Closest

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• Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Uncles, Errors

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• Storytelling is about listening in any media.

  Chris Vance

  Media, Listening

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• My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

  Aaron Stanford

  Book, Secret, Acting

  "Q&A – Aaron Stanford (Horace Cook, Jr.)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Problem, Ends

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• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Stories, Shows

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• Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

  George Lucas

  Loyalty, Stars, War

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• I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

  Orlando Bloom

  Things In Life, Stories, Bland

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• Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

  Jeremy Northam

  Jobs, Heart, Fiction

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

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• When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

  Aristotle

  Results, Decadence

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• I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

  Michael Shannon

  Dark, People, Pay

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• My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

  Tim O'Brien

  Believe, People, Stories

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• A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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