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While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
Ory Okolloh
Negative
Will
Power
Own
Else
Our
Out
Telling
Perceptions
Proponent
No-One
Shaping
Mainstream
Since
Stereotypes
Also
Am
Continent
Still
Western
Huge
African
Stories
While
Us
Media
Cognizant
Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
Osman Rashid
You
Money
Parents
Looking
Other
Telling
Solution
Higher
Prices
Renting
Been
Lot
Textbook
Forever
Save
I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
Paloma Faith
Funny
Family
Me
Problem
Idiot
Telling
Like
Impressed
Surrounded
Friends
Friends And Family
Celebrity
Any
Acting
Who
My stylist and agency staff are the ones that do a good job telling me what to wear.
Park Bo-gum
Good
Me
Good Job
Job
Telling
Wear
Stylist
Staff
Agency
My career has been driven with the hope of telling stories, as it helps me to judge people less.
Parvathy
Hope
Me
People
Judge
Has-Been
Telling
Driven
Been
Stories
Less
Helps
Career
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
Pat Brown
Community
Killer
Out
Telling
Unpleasant
Attention
Lot
Up
Serial
Some players have no idea how to handle life without structure. That's why some players get into trouble during the offseason. This is literally the first time in our lives we've ever had free time without somebody telling us where to be and what to do.
Pat McAfee
Life
Time
Free
Somebody
Trouble
First
Our
Our Lives
Telling
Some
No Idea
Structure
Free Time
Had
Idea
First Time
Without
How
Handle
Get
Where
Literally
Us
Why
Ever
Lives
Players
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams
Me
Genocide
Amazing
Made
Journalist
Sense
Down
Living
Back
Berlin
Telling
He
Disappearing
Always
Coming
Came
Wall
Stories
After
Dad
Right
Each song, you're telling a story and acting.
Patti Page
You
Song
Telling
Story
Acting
Each
It doesn't come naturally to me, being the boss and telling people what I want. I find it very taxing and tiring. I love getting to be way down the line in the decision-making chain.
Patty Griffin
Love
Me
People
Down
Way
Telling
Find
Boss
Come
Line
Very
Getting
Being
Want
Tiring
Decision-Making
Taxing
Naturally
Chain
When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.
Patty Jenkins
Love
You
Woman
World
Victory
Made
Looking
Lesbian
Think
Monster
Telling
About
More
Could
She
Make
Tragic
Person
Being
Story
Who
Specific
Her
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Paul Auster
Truth
Kind
Telling
Telling The Truth
About
Write
Trying
Fiction
I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.
Paul Graham
Great
You
People
Money
Matter
Focus
Criticism
First
Google
Think
Enough
Worrying
Telling
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Exactly What
About
Something
Examples
Instead
Like
Make
How
Making
Lot
Get
Did
Convince
Apple
Founders
You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.
Paul Haggis
Good
You
People
Valley
Run
Telling
See
About
Strongly
Good Story
Had
Knew
Like
Felt
Still
Were
Very
Going
Want
Movie
Wanting
Story
Theater
Movies
Might
Plan
Your
Keep
Compelling
As I'm telling people today, 'Never Trump' is nevermore. I mean, they're just gone.
Paul Manafort
Today
People
Gone
Telling
Never
Trump
Just
Mean
I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.
Paula Jones
Truth
Me
People
Money
Believe
Say
Telling
Telling The Truth
Would
About
He
Knew
Like
Because
Felt
Said
Were
American
Did
Just
American People
Things
Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?
Payal Kadakia
You
People
Vision
Important
Pain
Broader
Telling
About
Point
Know
Without
Accomplish
Going
Story
Them
Created
Connect
Connection
Company
Why
You need to keep having data points of progress, so even if an investor - and we've all had investors say no to us - there are times where you go back, and you keep them in the loop, and you keep telling them the progress and the perseverance you have.
Payal Kadakia
You
Perseverance
Progress
Back
Say
Telling
Data
Having
Points
Had
Investor
Investors
Loop
Go
Times
Where
Them
Us
Even
Keep
Need
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.
Pedro Almodovar
Myself
Remember
Old
Telling
Brother
Adolescence
Something
Through
Years
Sisters
Did
Stories
Twenties
Even
If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.
Pedro Almodovar
Director
Medium
Tell
Telling
Would
Through
Had
Sure
Still
Continue
Been
Different
Stories
Which
Them
Then
Successful
Found
Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.
Pedro Almodovar
Good
Single
Every
Films
Telling
Something
Look
Course
Want
Story
Really
Reason
Element
Chosen
I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.
Pepa
You
Heart
Speak
Telling
About
Real
Anything
Ashamed
The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.
Pete Doherty
Myself
Me
People
Seriously
Joke
Too
Bit
Circus
Telling
London
Morbid
Paris
Take
Cheer
Became
Without
Got
Up
Get
Really
Serious
Media
Twisted
Sometimes the person that is best for you is the person right under your nose. I wanted to have a girlfriend in high school, and I know I would have treated a girl well, but instead I was just friends with a lot of girls. They ended up telling me later on, 'We're so perfect together,' but at the time, I wasn't the cool-enough guy.
Pete Wentz
Time
Best
Me
You
Together
Sometimes
School
Girl
Later
Telling
High
Would
High School
Girlfriend
Guy
Perfect
Instead
Know
Well
Lot
Up
Friends
Person
Ended
Just
Nose
Wanted
Your
Right
Treated
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
Peter Guber
Surrender
Will
Own
Control
Ownership
Market
Telling
Willingly
Must
Cross
Only
Purposeful
Take
Make
Ultimately
Order
Interactive
Stories
Story
Creating
Gap
The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable.
Peter Guber
You
Experience
Benefits
Resonant
Relatively
Tell
Telling
Memorable
Inside
Magic
Purposeful
Features
Take
Facts
Soulless
Audience
Making
Happens
Information
Story
Deck
Them
Your
Figures
Actionable
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