Storyteller Quotes
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Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Michael Bergdahl
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I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
Alistair Cooke
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
Kevin Spacey
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I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
Donald Miller
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What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
Rebecca Solnit
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Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.
Santino Fontana
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I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
Wesley Borland
Big Dumb Face
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.
Keith Donohue
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My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."
Harrison Ford
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
Alan Garner
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The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Rich Cohen
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Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.
Christopher Castellani
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It's been a wonderful way to talk about a lot of different human experiences and issues. I'm very much a storyteller.
Carrie Newcomer
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The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come.
Steve Jobs
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The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
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What storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
Erica Jong
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My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.
Ed Kashi
