A Quote by Chinua Achebe

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe
Nigerian - Novelist
November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

Shekhar Kapur

The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.

Chip Conley

I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.

Gael Monfils

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

Kadir Nelson

If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.

Jessica Chastain

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

Shahid Afridi

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

Charlie Kaufman

I look for us - people of color in Hollywood, to create more stories as writers, directors and filmmakers, creating more opportunities for ethnic actors. At the end of the day, we have to be the ones giving jobs and telling the stories, not just waiting to be hired.

Dante Basco

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Hector Tobar

So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

To me, money is a vehicle; it's a tool. I could use it as a weapon to destroy things or money can create-you can create an opportunity, you can create a charity, you can create things for your family, you can go do something for your family that nobody else would ever do. You can create educational opportunities, you can feed people overseas. And there's a tremendous leverage with money, or you can destroy people with it.

Tony Robbins

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

Claire Messud

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

Dee Rees

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

Michael T. Weiss

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

Elizabeth Olsen

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Ann Curry

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