Quotes with story-tellers

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  • Arthur Herzog It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Alan Alda It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Shashi Tharoor It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Aaliyah It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Bob Newhart Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bill Goldberg Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • William Feather Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Life is too short for a long story.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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