Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

I'm telling you anybody is better than Narendra Modi because he won't listen to anybody.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

There are so many people telling you no, but if you love what you do, no one can stop you.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't.

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.

My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

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