My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
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
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
There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if the Roger Ailes scandal in which more than 20 women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment is… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
“The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper… — Susan Griffin 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 logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you,… — Justin Theroux 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
I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though.… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer… — A. J. P. Taylor 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
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, it's always about using my platform to give people an alternative narrative, because we all need to upgrade our mindsets. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
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![“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at the close of a day's work…” quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_baseball_well-did-anything-interesting-happen-tod_2458799.jpg)
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