Quotes About Narratives

Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations that are the underpinnings of the nation, or our economic ingenuity, all this has been articulated through narratives of exceptional white men.

Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.

I make videos about people's stories in a way that is human.

The narratives that suppress tension and opposition suggest that we have already achieved multiculturalism, that we know what it is, and that it is defined simply by the coexistence and juxtaposition of greater numbers of diverse groups; these narratives allow us to ignore the profound and urgent gaps, the inequalities and conflicts, among racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups.

Lot of stories. Sad thing when stories die for the lack of listenin' ears.

Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions.

I know that often people create faulty narratives to make themselves feel better in the moment even though it makes them feel worse over time—and that sometimes, they need somebody else to read between the lines.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Art history is so often about looking at the people who made the art; but I realized at that moment there were also stories to be told about the people who made the things that made the art. My

The past is never truly gone. It lives on in the memories of those who experienced it, in the stories that are told and retold, and in the places where it unfolded. We must honor the past by acknowledging its impact on our present, and by learning from its lessons to shape our future

One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

But are they not themselves stories of a new Bible?

Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves.

A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it'll humiliate you both. Best to just live with the bullshit.

I think the city of Atlanta has a lot of stories from the woman's perspective.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

As with the Trojans or the Tudors, there are many evergreen stories that we come back to again and again. I think history documentaries are as much about the present as they are the past.

I watch a lot of TV dramas.

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

Behn's bifurcated tales of fortune and misfortune, The Forc'd Marriage and Oroonoko are, in turn, comedic and tragic. They are twin narratives of the development of modern patriarchy.

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.