I'm from the country. We'd grow up telling stories, and I love that. — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done. — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. — Sheila Nevins Copy Share Image
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
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I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a… — Wale Copy Share Image
“Brendan suddenly 'came out' to me. In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone 'come out' to you is the 'pretending… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“News of the miracle had reached the doge's palace, but in a somewhat garbled form. the result of the successive transmissions of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that the less you tell someone, the more they want to know? You're better off to make something up… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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