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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.
The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you.
I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset.
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.
A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
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.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.
I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.
I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.
I think very few shows have come into our industry and changed the tempo and the narrative of stories, and 'Once Upon a Time' did that.
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
I just focus on my character and how pivotal it is to the narrative. I don't mind even a 10-minute role, if it's important to the script.
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
My father was a textbook narcissist. If he didn't like the narrative he'd start gaslighting you. He threatened the democracy of our family.