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I'm an assistant storyteller. it's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but i'm waiting on six million people a week, if i'm lucky.

-Jane Fonda

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I'm An Assistant Storyteller. It's Like Being

Jane Fonda

I'm an assistant storyteller. it's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but i'm waiting on six million people a week, if i'm lucky.

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[on being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . it's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but i'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if i'm lucky.

America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. we treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: libya station, iraq station, iran station, egypt station, syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

Working with robert, robert [elswit] is a storyteller. he's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. and to me, that's the graduation i hope to get to in my profession. that i'm not just an actor, i'm a storyteller. and i think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. makeup artists, actor, whatever. to graduate from just that to storyteller.

Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in america. if this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. the potential is there for more energy independence by america and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. that's a real bounty.

I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student i was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre i went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. i lost money and tickets, and i couldn't keep track of anything. so eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. the story-maker is always with us. let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. it is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. it is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

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