A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Americans haven't had the best success in the clay-court season or at Roland Garros, but it'd be really cool to change that… — Ben Shelton Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The whole narrative of the 'Return to the Land' was completely PR spin. Fans ate it up because it painted LeBron as… — Joy Taylor Copy Share Image
…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
“This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By swallowing the false narrative of systemic racism, we have demonized and criminalized police while turning criminals into civil-rights martyrs. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing. — Justin Peck 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
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