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All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.Vera Nazarian
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Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth. Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.Melanie Tem
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.Lisa See
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Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.A.D. Posey
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Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.Peter Brooks
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Always choose love over fear.A.D. Posey
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We are the thoughts we choose to keep.A.D. Posey
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5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value2 Spread positivity3 Create steady stream of info4 Make an impact5 Be yourselfGermany Kent
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Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.Kevin Keenoo
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The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.A.D. Posey
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When the true history fades, ask education and the unbiased story tellersErnest Agyemang Yeboah
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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth? Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland together, or even to set the heads of beasts to the bodies of men, or to thrust the souls of men into the heart of rocks? Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet." (A Teller of Tales) .W.b. Yeats
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Simply put, I love books, physical books. I own so many--many of which I have not read (yet). I just need to have them . On shelves. In piles. In random conference tote bags. Paper magazines and newspapers too. Some call it clutter. I call it cozy. It's comforting to know I am surrounded by pages of stories. And, thus, by storytellers.Donna Talarico
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Always have class but always kick ass.A.D. Posey
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.Chinua Achebe
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Comfort yields complacency. Break free.A.D. Posey
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Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.Avijeet Das
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When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.A.D. Posey
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Intuition is truth.A.D. Posey
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Stories change the world.A.D. Posey
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Find beauty in the madness.A.D. Posey
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When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.A.D. Posey
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We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.A.D. Posey
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Breathe in the beauty all around you.A.D. Posey
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Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.A.D. Posey
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With grace and beauty, feel.A.D. Posey
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That which is cool is driven by the soul.A.D. Posey
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Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.A.D. Posey
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Crying cleanses the soul.A.D. Posey
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Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.A.D. Posey
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Give all of life’s oxygen to the fire that is your soul.A.D. Posey
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Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.A.D. Posey
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I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.A.D. Posey
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Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.A.D. Posey
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Epiphanies awaken the soul.A.D. Posey
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If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.A.D. Posey
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Write what speaks to your soul.A.D. Posey
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The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead.A.D. Posey
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A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.A.D. Posey
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Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.A.D. Posey
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Writing is like breathing for my soul.A.D. Posey
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Art is everywhere.A.D. Posey
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All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.A.D. Posey
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Art is life.A.D. Posey
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Every work of art tells a story.A.D. Posey
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Style jazzes up your canvas.A.D. Posey
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Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.A.D. Posey
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If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth — poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.Kyoko Yoshida
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The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.A.D. Posey
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The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.A.D. Posey
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Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.A.D. Posey
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Reading sparks writing.A.D. Posey
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How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.A.D. Posey
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Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.A.D. Posey
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History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed, ....Kate Morton
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Stop making excuses and start making history.A.D. Posey
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Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to be human, express the indefinable feelings that unite humankind.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.A.D. Posey
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We encounter truth within.A.D. Posey
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Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.A.D. Posey
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The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.A.D. Posey
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Love is the answer.A.D. Posey
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Explore your own peace.A.D. Posey
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Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.A.D. Posey
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In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.A.D. Posey
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Find peace in knowing.A.D. Posey
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Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.Laurie H. Hutzler
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Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.A.D. Posey
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Gratefulness heightens awareness.A.D. Posey
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Your life should reflect your heart.A.D. Posey
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Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.A.D. Posey
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Listen to what speaks to your heart.A.D. Posey
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Create from the heart.A.D. Posey
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I think today is a day for the heart. What do you think?A.D. Posey
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Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away.A.D. Posey
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As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good.A.D. Posey
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Pour your heart onto the page.A.D. Posey
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Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live.A.D. Posey
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The heart of a story gives it life.A.D. Posey
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Write from the heart… always.A.D. Posey
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Listen when your heart speaks.A.D. Posey
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You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in.Steven Magee
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Shame is a state of mind.A.D. Posey
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It’s a new world. Stand up.A.D. Posey
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You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.A.D. Posey
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Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.A.D. Posey
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Writers wake up the world.A.D. Posey
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The world is blessed to welcome you.A.D. Posey
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A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.A.D. Posey
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The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.A.D. Posey
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Open your arms to the world.A.D. Posey
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Film makes me feel less alone in the world.A.D. Posey
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To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world.A.D. Posey
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Be what the world needs.A.D. Posey
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Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.A.D. Posey
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Positive thoughts shape a positive world.A.D. Posey
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The world is with you.A.D. Posey
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How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?A.D. Posey
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Look upon the world with wonder.A.D. Posey
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Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.A.D. Posey