Quotes About Narratives

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

Country music has the great stories.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

What Lippmann took from the war—as he explained in his 1922 classic Public Opinion—was the gap between the true complexity of the world and the narratives the public uses to understand it—the rough "stereotypes" (a word he coined in his book). When it came to the war, he believed that the "consent" of the governed had been, in his phrase, "manufactured.

The truth is bigger than the stories people tell themselves and bigger than the lies they live with.

Religion is fable. Yes, a story! Poetic. Universal. And I would start in about faith, which by its very nature can never be proven, and that the foundational narratives of most religious

We want to attach ourselves to narratives. We don't act because of equations. We follow our beliefs. We get behind leaders who stir our feelings.

There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and the journey. Every single book that is in the bookstore deals with these four archetypes, these four themes.

That experience taught me to take agency in my own professional narratives, and that endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business.

What is a relationship? The intersection of the stories of two people. The problem is that an awful lot of carnage takes place at this intersection.