Stephen Greenblatt
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BARRY LEVINSON JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER BONNIE HUNT I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list... IRA GLASS CECELIA AHERN RAMANA PEMMARAJU I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic an... DEBORAH HARKNESS I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenw... DIABLO CODY Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just ... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standard... MICHAEL BERGDAHL All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is somethi... C.E. LAUREANO When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see... JIM MCKAY I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller an... BRAD D. SMITH REBECCA SOLNIT I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up ... ETGAR KERET GARY VAYNERCHUK I can’t be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never ... ANTONIA MICHAELIS It's been a wonderful way to talk about a lot of different human experiences and issues. I'm very mu... CARRIE NEWCOMER BRANDON SANDERSON That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. IAN MCDIARMID GERMANY KENT KATE DICAMILLO AMY LEIGH MERCREE NEIL GAIMAN TANITH LEE He's also a great storyteller. It should be a wonderful program. He has a way of making you want to ... SYLVIA MOREL JAMES HANSEN JAMES FREY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY LLOYD ALEXANDER NEIL GAIMAN DISHA PATANI GARTH STEIN He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the vill... SORIN SUCIU The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in wo... ALAN GARNER ARZUM UZUN CRAIG GROESCHEL [A.J. Croce (Jan. 13) is the son of the late singer-storyteller Jim Croce.] A.J. has far more rock i... JACK WALKER The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and real... T. J. THYNE JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA FREDERICK BUECHNER BRYCE COURTENAY BRYCE COURTENAY BRANDON SANDERSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE STEPHEN CHBOSKY C. JOYBELL C. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS STEPHEN CHBOSKY JACKIE COLLINS A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA BRUCE COVILLE CHLOE THURLOW DAVID LETTERMAN I am a storyteller who uses a camera. CHRIS RAINIER LJUPKA CVETANOVA A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. BRUCE BOXLEITNER C. JOYBELL C. I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of... JILL SOBULE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is ... SCARLETT THOMAS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES MARKUS ZUSAK ROBERT STACK Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only e... JAMES ROBERTSON Snoop, by nature of what he does, is a storyteller. KATHLEEN SCHMIDT Going from voices of a mommy, daddy and baby penguin to a storyteller is a significant shift, ADAM LEIPZIG Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. MICKEY SPILLANE [All were] pivotal stories in the Australian narrative ... And obviously there is something elementa... GEORGE MILLER He's a really good storyteller. KATI WILKOWSKI DEYTH BANGER My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it'... RICHARD LEWIS God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other ... ELIF SAFAK If you are really interested in the stories, ask for details. That makes it more interesting for the... JOCHEN TENTER [Perez is a wonderful storyteller in the piece showing a rare openness.] People had told me 'Tony Pe... DAN KLORES DEYTH BANGER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We were very close. But it just didn't happen. Arkansas wanted to hold onto his rights, and Matt no ... JASON LEVIEN Design is your silent storyteller. The visual aesthetic you share with the world tells a story about... LAURA BUSCHE CRAIG GROESCHEL But I was determined not to make it bigger and broader for Broadway, and Stephen was just as adamant... JOHN DOYLE
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. STEPHEN GREENBLATT First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used bef... STEPHEN GREENBLATT I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for... STEPHEN GREENBLATT My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m... STEPHEN GREENBLATT I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nucl... STEPHEN GREENBLATT It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and wh... STEPHEN GREENBLATT In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mor... STEPHEN GREENBLATT Little girls buying baby T-shirts and wearing them, buying things extra small or taking them in, it ... DARREN GREENBLATT I have throbbing headaches about a lot of things, and Howard Stern isn't one of them. ROBERT GREENBLATT The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more ... ROBERT GREENBLATT It's most dizzying if, for women to go in and spend $1,000 for a skirt and the next season, it's 12 ... DARREN GREENBLATT We're not trying to compete with the big designers but to say along with Bill Blass, Donna Karan, th... DARREN GREENBLATT I think it would be the equivalent of an X rating. And rather than try to figure out how to cut it a... ROBERT GREENBLATT I think it would be the equivalent of an X rating if it were going in front of the MPAA. ROBERT GREENBLATT I think it's an incredibly bold and original show. And if only a small fraction of the loyal audienc... ROBERT GREENBLATT My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system. ROBERT GREENBLATT Usher is, without question, the biggest thing in the music business right now, and we're thrilled he... ROBERT GREENBLATT The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK STEPHEN COVEY Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b... STEPHEN BALDWIN STEPHEN HAWKING STEPHEN COVEY Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r... STEPHEN CHOW STEPHEN KING STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN HAWKING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN COVEY STEPHEN HAWKING STEPHEN COVEY The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain... STEPHEN HUNTER Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests. STEPHEN KINZER I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ... STEPHEN BALDWIN STEPHEN DOUGLAS STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN GARDINER STEPHEN KING STEPHEN COLBERT STEPHEN HAWKING STEPHEN HAWKING During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer... STEPHEN KINZER My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ... STEPHEN DOBYNS I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry. STEPHEN MERCHANT STEPHEN COLBERT I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ... STEPHEN DALDRY STEPHEN HAWKING [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the... STEPHEN BATCHELOR John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he... 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I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary... STEPHEN HOPKINS STEPHEN HARPER I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t... STEPHEN MORRIS As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ... STEPHEN KINZER It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz. STEPHEN DORFF Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein... STEPHEN KINZER There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu... STEPHEN STILLS STEPHEN LEACOCK STEPHEN AMBROSE I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy. STEPHEN BALDWIN My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat... STEPHEN MARLEY Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea... STEPHEN MARLEY STEPHEN HAWKING A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we... STEPHEN MERCHANT STEPHEN LEACOCK STEPHEN LEACOCK STEPHEN LEACOCK STEPHEN LEACOCK I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume... STEPHEN DALDRY STEPHEN COLBERT The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i... STEPHEN COLE Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY STEPHEN LEACOCK As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo... STEPHEN GRAHAM Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its... STEPHEN CURRY STEPHEN KING I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. 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It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t... STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. STEPHEN CLARKE STEPHEN FRY STEPHEN KENDRICK STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with... STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo... STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night;
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of... 
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. 
I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller. 
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like p... 
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."
I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... 
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. 
He's a great storyteller, 
I'm not a guru or a sage. I'm a storyteller. The only times I get disturbed is when I find people wh... 
I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, m... 
I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy. 
As a storyteller, I believe it's more about connecting with the audience and less with their respons... 
Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what ... 
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer fro... 
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upo... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
I like to think of myself as a storyteller. 
I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing. 
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story. 
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. 
He wanted it to be a scholarly book, ... I think if I had been a commercial writer, he would not hav... 
A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to... 
The only perspective is to really be there. 
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? 
Jackie Chan is the best storyteller on this planet. 
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story a... 
Tell me a story. Be my storyteller. 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find... 
The storyteller's claim, I believe, is that life has meaning—that the things that happen to people... 
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be ju... 
I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller. 
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
It's nice to have things to look forward to. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and... 
Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not alwa... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
He was a poet and a storyteller and a good friend of ours. We all knew this was coming, hoping that ... 
Not everyone has the time to be normal. 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyte... 
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... 
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... 
Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... 
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat... 
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my... 
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ... 
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... 
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin... 
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ... 
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o... 
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. 
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn... 
Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation. 
Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,... 
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner... 
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. 
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an... 
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-... 
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos... 
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. 
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ... 
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. 
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and... 
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp... 
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. 
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. 
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa... 
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ... 
Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. 
It was the kind of kiss that made
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that... 
Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change ... 
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. 
He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband ... 