Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it. — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
“If I’m unhappy with how female stories are portrayed, then at least I can do something about it. The great thing about… — Elinor Cook Copy Share Image
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There was a narrative sown in the U.K. for so many years that we were disliked by Europe, and some people may… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep -… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life… — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
“The Legend of Robert Halsey This article examines the criminal conviction of Robert Halsey for sexually abusing two young boys on his… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness… — Miranda Wilcox Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
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