Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that… — Arlene Goldbard Copy Share Image
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I tried so hard to be a more avant-garde, less narrative filmmaker, but it just didn't come naturally to me. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you… — Michael S. Smith Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
80-percent of 'Enter the Void' is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it's more similar to 'Jacob's Ladder' or 'Videodrome' than it… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
I think I've learned to be mindful. I may not have taken the time to try to understand narrative techniques, let's say,… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I think it was around the time of doing those shorts. [Producer] Christine Vachon, I had a meeting with her, and she… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other… — Gabriel Byrne 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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
I had a lot of filler put in and it became my narrative in the media for about three weeks. But you… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support… — Walter Kirn 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
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
“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
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