Telling Quotes
But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error. And so people said he had no respect for the gods of the clan. His enemies said that his good fortune had gone to his head.
Chinua Achebe
I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
Ken Uehara — Dr. Kawano
Fumio Sasaki
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Shug Fisher — Old Man Harris
Gila
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It'a highly profane parody of my song and therefore, I am telling my staff to call radio stations and demand the song be banned from airplay.
Rachid Taha
Chan Man-Lei - Mr. Koo
Zhou Xuan
[http://viktorandi.publishpath.com/ Viktor and I, the Film]
Viktor Frankl
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
Seth Godin
Yumi Shirakawa — Tomoko Sonoda
Fumio Sasaki
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Hamish Linklater - Richard Roth
Inky Johnson
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.
James Baldwin
[http://nativeamericanwriters.com/zitkala-sa.html Early Native American Literature page]
Zitkala-Ša
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Maggie Smith - Mrs. Medlock
Moor Mother
See last words in DC Comics media.
Mercedes Sosa
Anything whatsoever may become the subject of a novel, provided only that it happens in this mundane life and not in some fairyland beyond our human ken.
Murasaki Shikibu
I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
James Baldwin