National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives… — Chris Lehane Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
“All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised extensively; they are complex and baffling and ambiguous;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that… — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved,… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
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