I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me,… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
“There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one… — Michael Paterniti Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that… — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved,… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
