Quotes with story-telling

Quotes 341 till 360 of 402.

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Brendon Burchard We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bryant Gumbel We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • John Steinbeck We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bill Irwin We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis We do not retreat from reality, we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves... By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.
    On Stories and Other Essays Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Byron Katie We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • William Hazlitt We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
    Characteristics (1823)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Seneca We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Phyllis Diller We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Brit Marling We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Ben Elton We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Golden What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • André Gide What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Beth Littleford What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.
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  • Blake Mycoskie When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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