For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

- Aimee Mann

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

- Amory Lovins

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

- Anthony Hope

The telling of stories creates the real world.

- Alberto Manguel

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

- Anne Heche

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

- Amber Le Bon

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

- Amanda Burton

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'

- Alex Meraz

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

- Anita Brookner

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

- Andrea Riseborough

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

- Aaron Sorkin

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

- Ashley Jensen

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

- Anupam Kher

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

- Anne McCaffrey

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

- Alistair MacLeod

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

- Annette Bening

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

- Aristotle

I'm telling the same story in every film.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.

- Alan Alda

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

- Adlai E. Stevenson