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Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then my job as a storyteller is done.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.

I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing as well - ultimately, I am a storyteller.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Before 'Last Man Standing,' I did a lot of indies, which were raw and controversial and much darker. That is where I feel most secure as a storyteller. That is what I am drawn to the most.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next.

To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

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