Based Quote by Danai Gurira Download Open image “I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.” — Danai Gurira ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Based Create Creativity Literal Narrative People Storytelling
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a… — Neil McCormick Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. And I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I felt that I was kind of this outspoken girl, I… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody? — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I just feel like it's fascinating to me just watching my own family, seeing my cousins have children here, seeing the generations go on,… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
You have to remember that you are part of a craft, and you are constantly building your craft. Ultimately, we are artists, so it… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I'm going to make use of it as a platform for activism… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Teach me about some taxes. Why didn't nobody teach me about taxes on TV? Why don't nobody teach us about none of that man?… — Brandon McCartney Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
