Narrative Quotes - Page 28

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

Michael Cunningham

Movie Love, Television, Kind

"Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Peter Guber

Mom, Book, Reading

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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

Barry Hannah

Pain, Joy, Ongoing

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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

Hari Kunzru

Thinking, Play, People

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A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

Deborah Kass

Odds, America, Broadway

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I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

Jonah Lehrer

Years, Discipline, Labs

"Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

Mark Leyner

Style, Trying, World

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If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.

Max Levchin

People, Positive Experiences, Really Cool

"Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Mike Arrington, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

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Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

Pranab Mukherjee

Country, Commitment, Justice For All

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I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

Cynthia Nixon

Believe, Gay, Community

"Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is 'Technically' Bisexual" by Gena Kaufman, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph O'Neill

Identity, Term, Immigrants

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Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

Meghan O'Rourke

Drama, Grief, Loss

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A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

Kevin Rudd

Australia, Tears, Missions

Address to the Chifley Research Centre Dinner Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the World's First Majority Labor Government Old Parliament House Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 06, 2010.

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Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Ron Rash

Fiction, I've Learned, Length

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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Dana Spiotta

Reading, Impact, Stories

"Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

Mark Strong

Character, Dark, Opportunity

Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

Gillian Welch

Writing, Thinking, Voice

"Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

Tim Walker

Butterfly, College, Stories

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I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.

Thomas Howes

Character, Thinking, People

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I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

Lois Lowry

Brother, Thinking, Doctors

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In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

Ben Mezrich

Book, Together, Path

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I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Marianne Wiggins

Rocks, Car, Hammers

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Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Book, Writing, Difficult Questions

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Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.

Gary Gutting

Plato, Teaching, Philosophical

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Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.

Toyin Odutola

Reality, Creating, Black

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