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Arabian Nights (2000)

Alan Bates: Storyteller

Arabian Nights

Alan Bates credited as playing...

Storyteller

Quotes6

  • Storyteller: You begin at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stop. Just make sure he doesn't know what will happen next.
  • Storyteller: Here again, milady?
  • Scheherezade: These people sit for hours, just listening.
  • Scheherezade: It's a miracle.
  • Storyteller: People need stories, more than bread, itself.
  • Storyteller: They teach us how to live, and why.
  • Storyteller: You must learn how to leave your audience in suspense.
  • Scheherezade: Is this the time for stories?
  • Storyteller: It's the perfect time! Stories show us how to win, and in your case: defeat death.
  • Scheherezade: These people sit for hours - just listening. It's a miracle!
  • Storyteller: People need stories more than bread itself. They tell us how to live, and why.
  • Storyteller: You are starting your story again; you have to hook your audience again.

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