There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it. — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the… — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When you've grown up with limited resources, there's almost a narrative that everything's unlikely and the odds are against you. I guess… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really,… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is… — Patrick O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, independent of literary rules and grammar conventions, is the ability to build, play, experiment, sculpt, weave with words, sounds, texture and… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on… — Javier Marias Franco Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have a narrative and to have a point with your music and to be going somewhere with… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
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