Quotes About Narratives

regimes of the twentieth century depended not just on repression and control of the populace but on the active construction of national myth. Here the state leaders adopt the role of wise, courageous patriarchs who bravely resist decadent and predatory foreign influence, while the self-sacrifice expected of citizens is celebrated with heroic images and narratives. The state becomes the source of moral virtue.

La respuesta emocional del lector es algo muy valioso. Los relatos tienen que ganarse sus propias lágrimas, sin hurtarlas de ningún otro sitio.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

There's truly a story on every corner. But still might be a shock, to realize you are just one story walking among millions

If I didn't have a boy, at least I had plenty of stories about boys. And honestly? Some of the stories were better than the boys themselves.

My Yiayiá was exactly the sort of friend I'd liked as an adult, someone with an endless supply of hard-luck stories and no desire to ever write a book.

Most of us have complicated backstories, messy histories, multiple narratives. It was a high-wire strategy, for Obama, this invocation of our collective human messiness. His enemies latched on to its imprecision, emphasizing the exotic, un-American nature of Dream City, this ill-defined place where you could be from Hawaii and Kenya, Kansas and Indonesia all at the same time, where you could jive talk like a street hustler and orate like a senator.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

ll y a deux histoires : l'histoire officielle, menteuse, puis l'histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements.

Henry Louis Gates's edited The Classic Slave Narratives, which include Jacobs's as well as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, continue to be so important to me.

Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.

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 best of us all are the storytellers and the dreamchasers.

it is a truth of historical fiction that all the characters are long dead; all the lives and stories have ended, and usually not well.

It is, really. And we need stories more than ever now. We need stories to entertain us, to help us to forget our troubles, to fill our lives with colour." He paused and then added, "The period you've chosen is very colourful." "Would

A particular feature of Stevenson's oeuvre is the way in which characters that appear in one book may crop up in another context in a quite different title. Readers like this because in a way it reflects the way the world is; our lives are not linear narratives–they are meandering stories that take place in diverse settings and that are peopled by characters who drop in and out at various stages.

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

I try to be as specific as possible when saying 'Arab Muslims' because there are a lot of different Muslims. I've never really seen stories about us in America, at least where you had versions of our characters that weren't framed by violence.

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.

I wanted to re-examine stories people think they know without the rose-colored glasses of Hollywood and let the audience decide for themselves if people like Wyatt Earp were sinners or victims of life circumstances.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.

The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims.