#telling

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#ought #shop #should #tell #telling

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. ↗

— Lee Child

#dawn #goes #invention #probably #recent

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. ↗

— Lee Child

#nothing #story #telling #wrong

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#delicious #every #every time #father #five

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#brother #coming #coming home #ever #fact

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it. ↗

— Jim Dale

#boss #director #how #joy #own

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#because #business #directors #ever #first

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #books #down #external #fun

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#mark #mind #second-rate #stories #telling

People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness. ↗

— David Brooks

#buy #campaign #cleanliness #complain #get