Telling Quotes
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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.
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I'm sure we're going to be up all night telling stories.
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I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.
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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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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
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If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
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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.
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Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
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Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
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The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
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There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
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If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.
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Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
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I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your life how you want to live your life. No one should be telling you who you should love, no one should be telling you who you should be spending the rest of your life with. When we start talking about equality, and everybody being treated equally, I don't want to know an African-American who will say everybody doesn't deserve equality.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.
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You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
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The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling.
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I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.
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Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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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.
