Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document. — Jeph Jacques Copy Share Image
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth… A mother's love isn't cliché,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre,… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“So what happened . . . with Rupert?' I asked at last. I was genuinely curious. If I were to be murdered… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“In the novels, it always seemed best to keep the suspect talking. Inevitably, help would arrive. I really held out no hope… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy.… — Alec Austin Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.' — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
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