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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Quote by Alice Ann Munro about memory, people

My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about parents, writers, day

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Quote by Richard Bach about limits, eyes

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about thinking, real estate, life

Writing is what I did when I was alone with no one watching me or telling me what to do. I could do whatever I wanted.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writing

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Quote by Aristotel about poetry, poets, art, magic

That's what I've found just on a street level - fans, and people on the street. They either can't stand me or love me for telling the truth and saying what's on my mind.

Quote by Eminem about truth, mind, love, people

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

Quote by Richard Gere about intelligence, need, mind, life

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Quote by Mel Gibson about conflict

I was rebellious, fighting the waves. I lived in the shadow of this great legend and yet everybody was telling me to be my own man.

Quote by Peter Fonda about shadow, man

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Quote by Tom Hanks about technology

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Quote by Frank Herbert about self-control, man

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Quote by Billy Joel about drinking, people

And it was a friend of mine, a relationship that I was having with someone in Atlanta who was the catalyst for me getting sober, who actually went into a treatment center first, which I was very angry about, because, hey, it was like telling me...

Quote by Elton John

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Quote by Angelina Jolie about opinion, people

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Quote by Franz Kafka about lie, chance

A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, nature

Rain on a golf course is Gods way of telling you that you're playing too slow.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about rain

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

Quote by Sinead O'Connor about companies, man

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

Quote by Sara Paretsky