Telling Quotes
3439 quotes by 2398 authors
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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
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Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.
— Hal Sparks
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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
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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
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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
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I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.
— Roy Eldridge
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...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
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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
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The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
— Leonard Michaels
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect
— Drake
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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
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The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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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…
— Arthur Kleinman
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
— Arthur Kleinman
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