Quotes with story-telling

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  • Thomas J. Peters Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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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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  • Alice Munro Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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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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  • Blake Mycoskie Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Barbara Park My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Broderick Crawford My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Beau Bridges My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Beau Bridges My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Blair Underwood My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Anita Desai My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Anish Kapoor My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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