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Marilyn Johnson has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just…
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In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
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Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
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They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons…
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
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We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for…
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good…
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We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though:…
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I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed…
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The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
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In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,…
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Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read…
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Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
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Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks,…
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank…
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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
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All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…
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A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
— Mark Richard
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Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
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This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
— Tom Hanks
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And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up…
— Michelle Yeoh
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If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper…
— The Ultimate Warrior
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Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able…
— Ajay Naidu
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Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
— Marion Dane Bauer
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