#tellin

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#around #become #carry #corner #creature

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#books #clearly #concerned #gallery #i

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#come #company #does #fantasy #globe

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#administration #choice #choices #deliberately #ends

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#completely #ever #i #people #pollsters

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. ↗

— John Sayles

#book #books #came #certainly #down

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#australian #cheer #everyone #goes #greatest

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#brought #each #good #storytelling #unpredictable

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. ↗