#telling

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#different #different things #god #islam #judaism

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#coming #enormous #especially #favorite #favorite things

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#engine #filmmaker #got #love #order

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#i #interested #playwright #stories #telling

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#because #before #boss #business #had

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#alone #amazing #comfort #cure #else

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#cancellation #did #insurance #jumping #kill

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#storytelling #storytelling

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#symbolism #the-old-man-and-the-sea #storytelling

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture. ↗

— Erwin Raphael McManus

#storytelling #storytelling