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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

quote by Tanith Lee
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I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.

quote by Stephen Greenblatt
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

quote by Barry Levinson
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I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

quote by James Welch
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GRIOTTE by Marjorie Evasco

the story I remember Sandie Mbanefo remembers
her Igbo father telling her the old village storyteller
sat in the moonlight middle of a circle of ears and drums
beating the story in to let each one remember
stories from the very beginning simple complete
the way to throw nets onto the center of the lake
the way to cast spells to tame spit of the black mamba
in the countless spirals of words seeking the listening
whole navel dark pit memory called Mother in any tongue
in any story remembered and passed on in time
from time to time resurfacing in another other parts
of the world woven with skein like hers like mine like
Lina Sagaral Reyes bathing in the moonlight because
Bohol Electric cut off her supply her power to tell
the moonlight to me undiminished under the candleglow
as she remembered how rain water splashed
a shiver of fireflies on her brown body washed off salt
and silt from her twilight search for mollusks at Loay Beach
with the village women who also tell stories
what they remember everyday where crabs dance mate spawn
at new moon tide extraordinary things glowing
in the mangrove swamps while my feet tread their way
back to the night Sandie showed me Nigeria
the ceremonial clay figures in the round of storytelling
pulling me into the silent stretch of words as time curves
the gesture of fishers’ nets on to another lake where
I sit listen with Mabel Alampay to the blind
storyteller of Talisay remembering Taal Volcano
spewing lightning bolts the memory burned onto thin membrane
of eyelids shut forever into seeing inward a story of awe
passed on passing

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

quote by Isak Dinesen
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A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

quote by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

quote by Ian McDiarmid
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If you think of yourself as a storyteller, as I do, you want to do a full-length feature. So I feel that if there was an opportunity to direct projects and there was a guarantee to it, I could leave acting behind and I don't think I would miss it.

quote by Timothy Hutton
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Underneath The Sky

Underneath the sky of red
Is a storyteller sleeping alone
He has no face and he has no name
And his whereabouts are sort of unknown

All he needs is his life ln a suitcase
It belongs to a friend of a friend
And as we drink to ourselves
We'll amuse ourselves
Underneath the sky

song performed by Oasis from The Masterplan
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I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

quote by Tim Robbins
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

quote by Hugh Jackman
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A good storyteller must be able to lie a little.

Chinese proverbs
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He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes.

Moroccan proverbs
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I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

quote by Judy Collins
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I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

quote by Howard Hawks
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I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

quote by Nicholas Meyer
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Ayer

Encontr la flor que t me diste
Imagen del amor que me ofreciste
Aun guarda fiel el aroma, aquel tierno clavel
Ayer encontr la flor que t me diste
Aun guardo aquella carta que me escribiste
De un rojo pasional tena una marca
Tu firma junto al clavel me puso triste
Aun guardo aquella carta que me escribiste
Regresa por favor pues la vida es muy corta
Salgamos de la duda y del rencor
Muy bien dice el cantor, lo pasado no importa
De todo nuestro orgullo es lo peor
Renovemos la pasin pues la vida es muy corta
Llenemos de calro el corazn
Aroma de perdn aora nuestro ser perfume de ilusin de un nuevo amanecer
Frescor de primavera por toda eternidad
Roma de perdn aora nuestro ser
Regresa por favor pues la vida es muy corta
Salgamos de la duda y del rencor
Muy bien dice el cantor, los pasado no importa
De todo nuestro orgullo es lo peor
Renovemos la pasin pues la vida es muy corta
Llenemos de calor el corazn
Ayer encontr la flor que t me diste
Imagen del amor que me ofreciste
Aun guarda fiel el aroma, aquel tierno clavel
Ayer encontr la flor que t me diste
Levntense y gocen que la vida es corta
Algrense por fin que lo dems no importa
Oigan bien sin temor lo que ensea la vida seores
No te busques otra herida con el mismo error
Oigan bien levntense y gocen que la vida es corta
Algrense por fin que lo dems no importa
Tiren ya todas las penas y busquen la vida buena
Con cario y armonia como el agua y la arena qu bueno
Levntense y gocen que la vida es corta
Algrense por fin que lo dems no importa
Animense, sacdanse, acrquense sin problema, familia
Ra-ca-ta-ca-ta, cu-cun-cun-pra
Ya los cueros te llaman, te llaman
(translation:
Yesterday I found the flower that you gave me
An image of the love that you offered me
That tender flower still holds faithfully, its perfume
Yesterday I found the flower that you gave me
I still keep the letter that you wrote me
In passionate red, it had a mark
Your signature next to the flower made me sad
I still keep the letter that you wrote to me
Please come back because life is too short

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song performed by Gloria Estefan
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Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

quote by John Crowley
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Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

quote by Norman Jewison
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

quote by Kevin Spacey
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