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Narratives Quotes

My shows are not narratives Picture Quote #1

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy Picture Quote #1

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past Picture Quote #1

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives Picture Quote #1

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds Picture Quote #1

I create fictional narratives, but it’s based on literal people Picture Quote #1

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Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives Picture Quote #1

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely Picture Quote #1

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives Picture Quote #1

I’m pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh Picture Quote #1

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories Picture Quote #1

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It’s hard to shake those sort of narratives Picture Quote #1

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Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished Picture Quote #1

As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there’s not a damn thing you can do about it, it’s just very real Picture Quote #1

Writing a children’s book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development Picture Quote #1

Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don’t get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don’t get to hear the person’s voice; you don’t get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that’s about it Picture Quote #1

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well Picture Quote #1

What’s interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you’re actually going to make history worse Picture Quote #1

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Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that’s the place that’s most interesting to me as a reporter Picture Quote #1

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn’t really have that present in my house Picture Quote #1

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions Picture Quote #1

I plan less and less. It’s a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space Picture Quote #1

A society that’s addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end Picture Quote #1

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent Picture Quote #1

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They rode up the faint marks of the old trace where thousands of sojourners walking and riding both had crossed it and before them the buffalo far back in time. She joined the stream of humanity that had gone down that road, just one more story in a stream of narratives both likely and unlikely that were being told somewhere even now, by someone, in a far place Picture Quote #1

People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride Picture Quote #1

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time Picture Quote #1

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others Picture Quote #1

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life Picture Quote #1

It’s seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in ‘Breaking Bad’ or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments Picture Quote #1

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My shows are not narratives (Narratives Quotes) Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy (Narratives Quotes) Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past (Narratives Quotes) The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives (Narratives Quotes) I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds (Narratives Quotes) I create fictional narratives, but it’s based on literal people (Narratives Quotes) Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives (Narratives Quotes) Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely (Narratives Quotes) One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives (Narratives Quotes) I’m pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh (Narratives Quotes) Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories. (Narratives Quotes) In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It’s hard to shake those sort of narratives. (Narratives Quotes) Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished (Narratives Quotes) As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there’s not a damn thing you can do about it, it’s just very real. (Narratives Quotes) Writing a children’s book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development (Narratives Quotes) Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don’t get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don’t get to hear the person’s voice; you don’t get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that’s about it (Narratives Quotes) Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well (Narratives Quotes) What’s interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you’re actually going to make history worse. (Narratives Quotes) Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that’s the place that’s most interesting to me as a reporter. (Narratives Quotes) The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn’t really have that present in my house. (Narratives Quotes) A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions (Narratives Quotes) I plan less and less. It’s a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space. (Narratives Quotes) A society that’s addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. (Narratives Quotes) African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent (Narratives Quotes) They rode up the faint marks of the old trace where thousands of sojourners walking and riding both had crossed it and before them the buffalo far back in time. She joined the stream of humanity that had gone down that road, just one more story in a stream of narratives both likely and unlikely that were being told somewhere even now, by someone, in a far place. (Narratives Quotes) People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride. (Narratives Quotes) As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. (Narratives Quotes) North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others (Narratives Quotes) Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life. (Narratives Quotes) It’s seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in ‘Breaking Bad’ or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments. (Narratives Quotes)

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