#telling

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ↗

— Charles Ray

#culture #storytelling #writing #art

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#act #always #being #even #every

One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#going #i #life #my life #telling

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#film #i #interested #making #me

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#awareness #big #communicating #crisis #donation

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful! ↗

— Margaret Cho

#beautiful #beautiful woman #because #everything #feel

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