All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, ... SABRINA CARPENTER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about... OPRAH WINFREY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even i... MARGARET ATWOOD Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I'... 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It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes directio... VERA NAZARIAN Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next p... DANIEL ABRAHAM You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a... ADAIR LARA [If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because ... DAVID MCRANEY Never go tapping into the lives of others like you know them and their story! Their story is not you... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN You will never be able to see clearly when people around you distort your view of truth with their o... SHANNON L. ALDER A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A lot of them -- not all, but a lot of them -- will tell you completely outrageous stories because i... DEBORAH WILEY It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his plac... H.L. MENCKEN Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will los... NICK FLYNN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the o... ETGAR KERET What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou... SARAH DESSEN You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but whe... SHANNON L. ALDER If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t... DONALD MILLER Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you complet... LEWIS HOWES The thing about being selfish is that you don't care if someone is at your feet begging you to stay ... MIA ASHER And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true charact... ANNA FRIEL If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the pe... ELIZABETH SCOTT Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't... JOHN GREEN The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing ... EMINEM The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birt... JAMES JOYCE Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questio... ALEX GRAVES The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to talk to someone to see how they fee... DELMA PRYCE The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you k... LESTER HOLT All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. ISAK DINESEN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS He knows what you want and he gives it to you and it is all about you, not so much about him, so you... REBECCA LOOS If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in... MARCO TEMPEST If you don’t ask for what you want, you will most certainly not get it. But the first thing is to ... MARTHA LEE Be a Discovery Expert. Be inquisitive. A wonderful way to get to know someone is simply by asking qu... SUSAN C. YOUNG What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was jus... BRANDON SANDERSON Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try a... CHANCE THE RAPPER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it com... RICHELLE MEAD You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA The agenda is to tell a good story. That's all we really want to do, tell a good story about a good ... JACK KENNY I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you t... THALIA When you teach through puppets you are giving children something to remember the story with. A milk ... MARILYN PRICE Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and v... BERNARD LEVIN Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably
tell you.
Ask him, however, why, an... ANDREW LACK There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have... ROMAN POLANSKI You don't have to go to Baghdad, but you can be in Florida and be a part of what that story is all a... JENNY THOMPSON
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DIANE ARBUS We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We h... DIANE ADAMS We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important. DIANE ADAMS I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and t... DIANE ADAMS I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists. DIANE ADAMS They both take a playful look at the world. DIANE ADAMS The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy, DIANE ADAMS It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried ... DIANE ADAMS It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a... DIANE ADAMS It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ... DIANE ADAMS He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either ha... DIANE ADAMS Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August i... DIANE ACKERMAN Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con... DIANE ACKERMAN Success produces success, just as money produces money DIANE ACKERMAN Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight DIANE ACKERMAN Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, DIANE ACKERMAN These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and c... DIANE ABLONCZY Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want. DIANE ABLONCZY Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. Y... DIANE ABLONCZY I expect him to be straightforward. We won't get a dizzying round of rhetoric. He will say what he m... DIANE ABLONCZY My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. DIANE ABBOTT You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. DIANE ABBOTT This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Port... DIANE ABBOTT She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself ver... DIANE ABBOTT In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mo... DIANE ABBOTT because that was the only way they felt they could survive. DIANE ABBOTT Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s... DIANE ABBOTT Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched ... DIANE ABBOTT My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the... DIANE ABBOTT