Quotes by Narrative We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. Anne-Marie Slaughter boat captains narrative I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that. Anne-Marie Slaughter faults narrative done We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to make things with words and images and get outside these preordained tropes and ways of thinking and the master narratives - what's handed to us. Anne Waldman narrative mind thinking If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect. Antonio Damasio narrative powerful development My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on. Arthur Smith sister-in-law narrative believe I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. Asghar Farhadi atmosphere narrative restriction I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians. Ava DuVernay admire narrative ifs In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out. Ava DuVernay truth-will-come-out documentaries narrative Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. Barry Hannah narrative pain joy I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word. Ben Gibbard narrative sometimes thinking That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. Bradford Cox imitation narrative culture I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. Brian Eno mediums narrative tvs My shows are not narratives. Brian Eno narrative shows In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear. Brian Lindstrom narrative lasts years There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. Bruce Feiler inspired narrative stories I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Bruce Springsteen rock-n-roll tradition narrative The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen. Bruno Dumont assumption narrative quiet I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous. C. S. Lewis miraculous has-beens narrative I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. Carmen Laforet thread narrative writing Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing Carol Ann Duffy intense-moments narrative facts «1234567891011»
