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Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.


LeVar Burton

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KELLY JONES Storytelling is for all people. Storytelling is alive and well because people are so hungry for stor...
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TIM WALKER Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.
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CHARLES STURRIDGE The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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MICHELLE PHAN Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,&#...
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BARRY RITHOLTZ I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. JAMES Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
FRANK DELANEY It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
TED SHACKELFORD This is building from the African tradition of storytelling.
FAYANNE HAYES Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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ROBERT PENN WARREN To just plug songs in wouldn't really help the storytelling.
CHAD BEGUELIN I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
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DAN HAREL We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society i...
DOUG AITKEN You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD As artists, these folks are fabulous, ... and as visual storytellers, they are fabulous.
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MATTHEW FOX The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
HANNAH ARENDT Storytelling is what lights my fire.
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NATE POWELL I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.
ALEX TURNER When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytell...
TED RALL When the storytelling in a culture goes bad the result is decadence.
ARISTOTLE When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about...
BOB IGER The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upo...
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CHRIS CLEAVE There's nothing like it that can combine the things that are there, ... The art of drawing and paint...
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BRUCE FEIRSTEIN Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
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TIM BURTON Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old faci...
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