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I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
The Rafale deal narrative that the Congress is setting is a propaganda that has international ramifications.
I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
I don't think the narrative I was stuck in - the 'black' designer category - was going to go away anytime soon.
Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.
I always respected country music for its narrative and how it's so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy.
I know what the narrative is on me. It's because I come from money and I have a swagger and confidence about me.
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.
When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.
'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.
It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.
I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.
I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.
I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent narrative.
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.