Telling Quotes

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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into… — Vida Blue
Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential. — Hal Sparks
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of… — Dwight L. Moody
My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was… — Daniel Pearce
He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away. — Steven Morrissey
I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. — Roy Eldridge
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a… — Anne Lamott
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. — Leonard Michaels
So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think… — Joely Richardson
If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don't, then I don't. My friends are always telling me I… — Emma Watson
For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of… — Anne Bancroft
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell — Drake
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my… — George R. R. Martin
& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect — Drake
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling… — John Green
The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. — Elizabeth Bowen
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… — Arthur Kleinman
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. — Arthur Kleinman

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