A Quote by Eddie Griffin

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

Eddie Griffin

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Environment Family Just Product Storyteller Storytellers Whole Whole Family

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Eddie Griffin
American - Comedian
Born: July 15, 1968

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.

Tanith Lee

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

Dianne Reeves

I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.

Kirk Hammett

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Barry Levinson

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Matthew McConaughey

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. Makeup artists, actor, whatever. To graduate from just that to storyteller.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Just like the rest of the world, I became a product of my environment, and this environment was gang culture.

Richard Cabral

I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.

Genevieve O'Reilly

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

Curtis Hanson

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

Usher

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

Patricia Polacco

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

Ashwin Sanghi

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

Molly Antopol

To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

Ruth Sawyer

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.