Quotes About Narratives

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

I like stories that affect families.

Television is the medium that's allowing women's stories to flourish.

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

The student of story collections finds himself adrift on an ocean of stories, an ocean which is boundless, deep and ceaselessly in motion.

because, after all the struggles to reconstruct democracy in Chile and having endured so much suffering, people needed a new source of hope. It dawned on me that the resurrection stories of the appearances of Jesus might just hold the key to hope. The lectures were presented as examples of "master narratives" into which we can put our own stories.

It has been difficult for scholars to research popular narratives, focusing on the core elements that make them contagious, without being accused of taking sides in political, or sometimes religious, controversies.

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.

I told myself I deserved some good luck, overlooking the fact that it would call for substantially more than luck to thrust me into one of those narratives where plain-Jane new girl catches the eye of inexplicably single Prince Charming, because somehow the new school has revealed her wild, irresistible beauty, of which she was never before aware.

All happy endings are the same, but every unhappy ending is unhappy in its own way.

All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

Girls are important: "Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.