Telling Quotes
3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors
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Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying?... Dig it, they’re telling it like it is. They know what’s happening in the city; blackie…
— Charles Manson
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All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly…
— Paul Waldman
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My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really…
— Jake M. Johnson
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to…
— Damian McGinty
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
— J.H. Wyman
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Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was…
— Al Walser
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The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that,…
— Stephen Daldry
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I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
— Ben Macintyre
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I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of…
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the…
— Franklin Raines
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I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should…
— Lee R. Raymond
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On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
— Noel Redding
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Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...
— C.S. Lewis
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Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an…
— Mira Kirshenbaum
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My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
— Baz Luhrmann
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Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.
— Duncan Jones
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I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My…
— Nathan Fillion
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I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other,…
— Morgan Freeman
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I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the…
— Matthew Vaughn
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I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity…
— Carey Mulligan
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I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that…
— Ryan Adams
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I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying…
— Ryan Adams
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Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
— Albert Schweitzer
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My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So…
— Bill Gates
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