Top 1200 Narrative Structure Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways.

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.

I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I liked the structure of ballet.

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative.

The Rafale deal narrative that the Congress is setting is a propaganda that has international ramifications.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

If I'm doing a daily soap I would like my character to drive the narrative.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

America has been around less than 250 years, and in less than 250 years we have created what is the greatest country on earth. There are reasons for it. And any other country on earth could do the same thing. They could structure it the same way, and if they don't have natural resources they could economically structure a way to barter, share, buy, trade, you name it. They could do the same thing.

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

Everybody has a corporate structure.

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

Entropy is the price of structure.

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

I know what the structure of the language is.

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is often determined by the structure of the system, the situation. There are requirements, structurally determined; there are possible in pure cases unambiguous decisions as to which completion does justice to the situation, which does not, which violates the requirements and the situation.

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.