- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell Quotes
What people choose to tell, and why it matters.
One of these tell quotes is refreshingly candid, an athlete accepting a limited role rather than resenting it, while an actor frames the whole point of the craft as telling stories that actually matter. For more on honesty and voice, see Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
- Momentum
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
- Freaked
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
- Nov 07, 2020