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• One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

  Miguel Jontel Pimentel

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• My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that’s really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

  Amanda Hocking

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• My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

  Georgie Henley

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• I’m not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I’m interested in who’s telling it and how they’re telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

  Amy Hempel

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• I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

  Steve Harvey

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• Writing a novel – unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken – is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you’re doing it, whether you’re doing it well or badly. And merely because you’ve done it well once doesn’t mean you can do it well again.

  Robert Harris

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• It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

  Rebecca Hall

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• I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.

  Daryl Hall

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  You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

  Tammin Sursok

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  Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain’t worth a shit — not with the Good Lord telling him how to f**k you on the deal.

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Business

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• I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I’m telling the wrong story.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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• Within months after reading the novel ‘The Hunger Games,’ I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.

  Amandla Stenberg

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• I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don’t put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, ‘What does that mean.’

  Karrine Steffans

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• I’ve realized that although Valentine’s Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it’s a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn’t have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

  Reeva Steenkamp

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• You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• I’m telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

  Dax Shepard

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• The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.

  William Shatner

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  Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Baby

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