Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
We have been, obviously both in Maine and nationally, enmeshed in this false narrative that's based on a fear of immigrants, when… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it." — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It's the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner… — Margaret Starbird Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them. — Hildur Gudnadottir Copy Share Image
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally… — Karyn Kusama 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
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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