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
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and… — Mike Colter 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
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to counterprogram Trump, if you will. Hillary doesn't know how to go out and write her own… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.” — Eric Karpeles Copy Share Image
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend… — Jose Manuel Barroso 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
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in… — 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
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
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