Telling Quotes
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.
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Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling.
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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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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'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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I don’t like telling people telling how old I am.
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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 had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me.
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I wish we could all have a telling room, a place where we go to tell our stories and listen to the stories of others; in our culture, the telling room might be around the dinner table or in the car on a long trip.
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Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.
