Quotes with story-tellers

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  • Philip Roth Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bryan Fuller For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Beth Grant Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Blake Mycoskie Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bob Kane How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Anne Perry I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Angela Merkel I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Adam Faith I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Aishwarya Rai I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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