Narrative Quotes - Page 10

• The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Going Away, Pages

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Government, Perfect

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• I'm wondering if the Roger Ailes scandal in which more than 20 women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment is going to affect that narrative that's directed against Hillary [Clinton] and her husband pertaining to his infidelities.

  Terry Gross

  Husband, Infidelity, Roger

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

  David Benioff

  Years, Lasts, Fiction

  Source: variety.com

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• If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Doors, Years, Realize Things

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• For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Giving, People, Want

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Projects, Viewers

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of songwriting.

  Finn Andrews

  Dad, Band, Clubs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Today, Classic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!

  Kofi Siriboe

  Father, Character, Angel

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

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• Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges.

  Cosima Spender

  Real, Drama, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

  Shauna Niequist

  Believe, Loss, Giving

  Shauna Niequist (2010). “Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way”, p.8, Zondervan

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• For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).

  Teddy Wayne

  Wall, Writing, World

  "'My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically': Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books". www.salon.com. September 13, 2016.

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• It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

  Emma Donoghue

  Character, Limits, Movement

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Political, Black, Want

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

  Catherine Wilson

  Progress, Benefits, Tests

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

  Henry Giroux

  Youth, Trouble, Economy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of temporality of dead time, zones of abandonment and terminal exclusion marked by a loss of faith in progress and a belief in those apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure.

  Henry Giroux

  Loss, Insecure, Time Zones

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives of fear and violence. Such legitimation is largely provided through a market-driven culture addicted to the production of consumerism, militarism and organized violence, largely circulated through various registers of popular culture that extend from high fashion and Hollywood movies to the creation of violent video games and music concerts sponsored by the Pentagon.

  Henry Giroux

  Fashion, War, Games

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one we did with Keegan Michael-Key - they really are little hero narratives. The whole "Save the Day" - it's called that, specifically, for a reason - ethos is there is this heroic act called voting. And the world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

  Joss Whedon

  Couple, Fun, Hero

  "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.

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• I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their oral histories, I'm taking a step back to do my own art book and visual work.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Book, Son

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Change the narrative, change the laws.

  Ani DiFranco

  Law

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Comics have the page as their real estate so you've only got that space to tell the story on. But the other thing only comics do is to have the words and pictures being simultaneous. Your brain is flicking between them and you can put in some excellent narrative devices; you can off-set things and juxtapose things between word and image.

  Leah Moore

  Real, Space, Brain

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is obvious to me is virtual reality or immersive 360 degrees virtual reality is not somehow a part of 3D movies, and it is not a new form of video games, it's neither, it is something completely new, something different, and nobody has come up yet with real convincing content.

  Werner Herzog

  Real, Games, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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