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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Two, Amusement, Easy

  "Newsweek" Magazine, August 25, 1980.

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• Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Motivation, Inspiration, Knowing

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• You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Library, Form

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.4, UNM Press

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

  O. Henry

  Bores You, Mosquitoes, Stories

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.346, Penguin

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• Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

  Meg Cabot

  Kids, Writing, Giving

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Skulls, Judging

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• Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Song, Truth, Heart

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• A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Giving, Tales, Superstitious

  1946 The Living Novel,'An Irish Ghost'.

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• Tell me a story of deep delight.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Stories, Delight

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.267, LSU Press

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• Man gave us laws, and God gave us time,
  It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

  ASAP Rocky

  Art, Rap, Men

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

  Ang Lee

  Numbers, Needs, Goes On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Believe, Asking Questions, Sake

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Stories, New Thought

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Two, Acting

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.175, Wildside Press LLC

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• All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Journey, Men

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• You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.

  Beth Comstock

  Marketing, Sells, Ifs

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• A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Stories, Good Story

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.75, Univ of California Press

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• If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

  Samuel Fuller

  Couple, Giving, Garbage

  Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf

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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

  Roger Deakins

  Movie, Moving, Mean

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