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We're all building our narratives in our heads. David Means

Building Our Heads Narratives

What I appreciate about Radiohead's work - and it's most evident in 'Hail to the Thief' - is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band's albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness. David Means

Work Band Sense Thief Evident About Somehow Hail Most Narratives How Juxtaposition Creates Radiohead Wholeness Albums Appreciate

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets. David S. Goyer

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We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on. Derren Brown

Life Ourselves Tell Charged Through Since Narratives Learnt Go Historic Owned Going Often Childhood Stories Realise Which Even Things

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others. Evgeny Morozov

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Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas. Gad Saad

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent. Glenn Ligon

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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar

Passion First Unity Composed Pieces Gospels Narratives Were

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives. Hari Kunzru

People Think Way Out About More Put Days Supposed Narratives Reversal Taught Where Stories Which Interesting Scripting Play

Fashion has always captivated me because, like I said, it has the potential to create narratives about what's beautiful, aspirational, chic, masculine, feminine, glamorous, etc. Generally, this power is dispatched in useless ways. Hari Nef

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional. Howard Jacobson

Problem Mind Spring Most Narratives Fictional

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives. Jackson Katz

Women People Enough Wrestling Badly Know Most WWE Narratives How Women Are Familiar Goes Just Professional Actually Treated

We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry. Jeff Nichols

Money Think Everybody Costs Directors Point Development Feel Make Industry Sure Around Narratives Gotten Lot Gets So Much Money Where Movie Unfortunate Much Floating Film Film Industry Filmmakers

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations. Jennifer Egan

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I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books. Jim Crace

Books Detailed About Invented Mostly Narratives Offer

My first album, 'Englaborn,' was based on music originally written for the theatre. My solo albums, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have also had narratives attached to them. Johann Johannsson

Music Theatre First Solo Attached Had Written Like Also Narratives Them Manual User Originally Based Album Albums

I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring. John Legend

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space. Jonathan Lethem

Good Great You Writing Space Long Holding Virtual Benefit Head Like Narratives Lots Get Plan Your Less

They did laugh; they did fall in love. And while they were under incredibly oppressive conditions, they constantly were trying to steal pleasures. When you go back to the slave narratives, and you read books like the 'Bullwhip Days' or 'Incidents in the Life of the Slave Girl,' they will share what life was like, and it's a 365-degree view. Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You're able to really personalize it. Jurnee Smollett-Bell

History You Wealth First Reading Research Books Able About Because First-Person Narratives Hearing Account History Books Than Person Different Stories Really Whole Different Thing Thing Slave

Usually superheroes with all their powers and action-driven narratives are supposed to appeal to boys and men more than women; and as an extension of that, it is a given that the creators of these characters are primarily men. Kanika Dhillon

Women Men Characters Superheroes Given More Primarily Supposed Powers Boy Narratives Than Appeal Creators Extension

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh. Ken Liu

People Will Way Tell Has-Been Perceive Allow Stereotypes Makes Fresh Narratives Been Western Escape Story China Hard

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives. Kumail Nanjiani

You Narrative Narratives Very Short Sketch

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