Telling Quotes
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The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more concrete advantages in the world for people who praise than for those who denounce. So if you want to tell the truth, oftentimes you're going to err on the side of denouncing. That's just something I have to work on.
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When the bus arrived at the school, children were telling administrators that a student on the bus was showing a weapon.
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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Has he ever even said he loved you?" "He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening
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We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.
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I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
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[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.
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A lot of girls walk this earth telling people they've slept with me. And a lot of them did. But I don't remember 95 percent of them.
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I don’t like telling people telling how old I am.
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I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.
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There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.
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Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.
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Telling puts the other person down. It implies that the other person does not already know what I am telling and that the other person ought to know it.
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If you're telling your own story, it's going to be unique because it's yours.
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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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I'm okay I'm okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause i'm telling you the truth I mean this i'm okay. Trust me... I'm not okay... Well okay i'm not okay. I'm not o-f cking-kay
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I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
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Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling.
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Walked in class and my professor goes "when did you plan on telling us that you can fly"
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Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.
