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• I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Stories, Hearing, Towns

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

  Steve Buscemi

  People, Stories, Problem

  "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

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• I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Knowing, Interesting

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

  Regina Spektor

  Breakup, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.

  Sally Fitzgibbons

  Running, Rain, Laughing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

  Steven Levitt

  Powerful, Thinking, Data

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

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• I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Hate, Writing

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Song, Nice

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• I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.

  Holly Hunter

  Spiritual, Exercise, Thinking

  "Holly Hunter Comes to the End of Saving Grace". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 22, 2010.

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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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• There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

  Bill Frakes

  Cameras, Stories, Want

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• I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

  Donna Tartt

  Long, People, Literature

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• I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

  Alex Winter

  Love, People, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Mean, Sea

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.npr.org. June 6, 2013.

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• There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better. There are many (Latino) stories that need to be told and haven't been told right. If I could help be that voice then that's what I'm going to do, because this is a reality for me.

  Richard Cabral

  Artist, Reality, Voice

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• Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

  Linn Ullmann

  Symbolism, Order, Perspective

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• When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

  Sophie Marceau

  Firsts, Film, Familiar

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• Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

  Graham Swift

  Children, Memories, Fall

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• I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

  Joss Whedon

  Ambition, Want, Pay

  "Joss Whedon Talks MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D., Its Weekly Format, Planning Agent Coulson’s Return, How the Series Ties into the Films and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And it can also be practically very nice for a family man to have 9 months out of the year where you're in the city, where you're close to your home.

  Chris Pratt

  Nice, Home, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Mean, People, Stories

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• I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

  Sheila Nevins

  People, Stories, Want

  "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

  Olivier Dahan

  Real, People, Mixing

  "Olivier Dahan: 'I don't read the Grace of Monaco critics'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  Aaron Huey

  Real, Thinking, Understanding

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