Quotes About Perspective

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

This character I play on 'OITNB' is an antagonist in a Black Lives Matter storyline, but you need antagonists in order to tell those stories.

I suppose if the script and storyline is good, you've got to take what you're given, really.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.

It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

I'm a good storyteller.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

Honestly, I'm the worst storyteller ever. Like, I just take so long.

I feel really blessed to work in a place that values me for what I bring as a journalist and as a professional storyteller and navigator of the news. But I also know that they appreciate about me, my perspective as a woman, as a black woman.