Top 1200 Telling Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

For me, it's always about the work and the stories I'm telling and the slices of life I feel should be illuminated.

I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to get a message across it was more powerful when I told a story, rather than if I used a metaphor or if I preached about an issue. And through doing that I realised that actually these stories were very visual in my head and I couldn't wait to make the videos.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not going to be in print or recorded. It's just for whoever's in the audience. It's always been for me kind of fun and then everyone walks out of there, "She told this story about da da da" but nobody can prove it.

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people.

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

My career has been driven with the hope of telling stories, as it helps me to judge people less.

We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

I can't wait until this show gets on the road," he said. "You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories..." The reference to "ghost stories" hit a little closer to home than I was comfortable with. Not that choosing curtains or brushing Christian's hair was much more appealing.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

I love how 'Game of Thrones' has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped into our need to hear stories about the human condition, love, death, good, evil... For me, it really is a modern version of the old Greek theatre or cave men sitting around fires telling stories.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stories anymore.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

What's neat about TV is you get really rich, an opportunity to tell really rich stories over the course of 20 hours. Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. You go on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up. Maybe in a franchise you have three chapters of a great story but in TV you can really get deep. You have more time to tell stories so I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

RuPaul's Drag Race' is truly people telling their own stories. It's an amazing show.

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

I'm very grateful to be in a position now where I have a lot more control to tell the stories I want to tell. I feel no obligation to tell any one story. I will tell you my interest mostly lies in telling stories about empowered women, but I don't feel it's an obligation. But I do feel like I am servicing a voice.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

I'd love the opportunity to continue to work in the U.S. with people I have always admired and I also want keep telling stories from where I'm from.