But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the…

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually…

— Brian De Palma

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

— Danielle Trussoni

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but…

— John Burnside

'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very…

— Ian Rankin

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.”

— Richard Handler

Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile, context-less architecture.…

— Jimenez Lai

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your…

— David Mitchell

“When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain…

— Andi Zeisler

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is…

— Denis Dutton

“I selected a research method called autoethnography. It allows someone to study their own story within a cultural context like, say, a child living…

— Michelle Stevens

When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in the food.

— Michelle Zauner

“In other words, the biblical writers were speaking to those who shared a rich cultural context, which shaped the way they communicated. I grew…

— Ken Wilson

“Though we recognize distinct cultural differences across time and place, the commonalities warrant our attention. To think about how these ancient commonalities need to…

— John H. Walton

The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The…

— Anne Bogart