Top 1200 Telling Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

I really love the work that I do, and I feel like you have to go that extra mile to do it because it is a responsibility. Telling stories is a responsibility.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

When your teammates are telling you to score and telling you to shoot 3s, when you ain't shot a 3 in your whole life, that's cool. I mean, that makes you feel good. and, like, all the work you've put in, they are telling you to show what you have been working on.

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

Woodfall wasn't deliberately telling working-class stories, but John Osborne and other writers who were involved with them were writing those stories, which had never really been written before. The working-class person always had to have an accent before, was often a joker, and peripheral. At Woodfall, they were driving the film.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

Supernatural hasn't spent a lot of time on relationship stories, and this is a really nice mechanism to do that without imposing that on the forward momentum of these other stories that we're telling. In the writers' room we tend to say, "We're never going to be able to give a hell or Purgatory as good as people's imaginations," so the instinct is normally not to go there. But, we went the other way this year and said, "We are going to go there," because there's a really, really strong character thing going on down there.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

As a film-maker, I enjoy telling stories, and every film has its own journey.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.