Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both… — James Gray Copy Share Image
'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on… — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace. — David Means Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear,… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was -… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true.… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“The crucial question, therefore, is not how to accomplish the final reconciliation. That messianic problem ought not to be taken out of… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
For us, since we entered the MCU as storytellers, and we picked up the story with 'Winter Soldier,' we've been carrying a… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling -… — Ryan Trecartin Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which the media narrative diminishes me. I resist the temptation to fit into a preconceived narrative. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
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