#telling

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#carrot #carrot top #dress #edge #get

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#eloquent #only #song #story #telling

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#actually #else #i #i think #opposite

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. ↗

— Ted Lange

#artists #cosmic #instruments #should #storytelling

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#being #chops #cooking #crew #filmed

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#clothing #first #him #hotel #never

Telling lies does not work in advertising. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#does #lies #telling #telling lies #work

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#gift #i #i can #just #me

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.' ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#clear #fantasy #fly #like #lose

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #deal #give