Quotes About Narratives

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

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.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

White people who are doing this work [white antiracism] need to continue to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

You had to hand it to those reformers: They concocted better stories than the ones at the nickel theaters.

I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that.

I don't want to impose a retrospective clarity of will on what had certainly been months immersed in a flailing muddle, but if there isn't some truth to the narratives of progress with which we sometimes try to frame our lives, however rooted in desperate delusion, we'd never be able to speak them, certainly not silently to ourselves, with any conviction.

I'm a collection of stories stuffed into a brain with no context, trying so very hard to simply keep going.

The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness.

Our faith narratives must be protected, and we must remember that no person is ordained to judge our divinity or to write the story of our spiritual worthiness.

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty. When we depend on self-protecting narratives often enough, they become our default stories

Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories—stories that almost always cast them as alone and unworthy of love and belonging

Yes, we are all conspiracy theorists with our own stories, constantly filling in data gaps with our fears and insecurities.

There are so many talented people in the world - black, white, yellow, whatever - and we want to tell stories, too. But oftentimes, we get the one token minority role.

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'