Re Telling Quotes

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

Always tell the truth and be true.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I like telling stories.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.