#telling

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story." ↗

— Yann Martel

#away #battle #especially #find #half

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#bit #child #dinner #dinner table #directing

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#always #around #attitude #car #carry

I don't have anybody telling me what to do. ↗

— John Mayer

#i #me #telling

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act. ↗

— Willie Mays

#always #ball #black #comfortable #enjoyed

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#lies #polite #telling #telling lies #telling the truth

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#itself #life #life is a #living #person

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#journalism #know #storytelling #you

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. ↗