“First and foremost, the most profound weapon a nation or special interest can possess is “control” over information. This contributes to control… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies Copy Share Image
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of… — Angie Klink Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection.… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love.… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human… And although you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
