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Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both freedom and danger. Laura van den Berg

Freedom Danger Those Tell Evolving More Both Self-Delusion Narratives Than Children Stories Fantasy Themselves Engage

In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. Lynn Nottage

Listening Become Had Terms Narratives Came Which Bodies Extent

I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. Martine Syms

Embodied Identities Ideologies Narratives Always How Been Interested Viewers Manufacturing

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. Michael Cunningham

Love Television Kinds Narratives Movies

President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base. Michiko Kakutani

Fears President President Trump Astonishing Those Worst Abandon Lies Gin Only Equally Narratives His False Trump Up Prejudices Connect Base

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories. Paul Auster

Great Passion Films Books Churning Television Out Vast Because Quantities Narratives Comic Comic Books Up Human Human Beings Stories Fictional Swallow Public Them Beings Even Need

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. Paul Davies

Language Chemistry Biology About Simply Mesh Concepts React Does Narratives How Substances Whereas Information Informational Organisation Appeals

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well. Peter Guber

Work Day Great You Technology End Of The Day Think Analog Back Networks Take Exchange New Well Narratives End New Technology Any Stories Convert Social Them Then Create Social Networks Connect Helps Creatures Cohesion

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are aware, I think. Rebecca Serle

Think Tremendous Tremendous Amount Way See Shakespeare More Come Him Narratives Than Authors Story Many Aware Fundamental Amount

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions. Robin Marantz Henig

Life Natural People Events Hardships Own Other Tools Minds Favored Recognize Evolution Ability Come Narratives Causal Up Infer Human Intentions Them Might Certain Organisms Human Life Beliefs Among Presence Cognitive Early Desires Harm

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. Rupert Holmes

Plots Had Songs Wrote Narratives Lot Story Early Career

True-crime shows and podcasts aren't the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence 'matches' a suspect, when scientists can't be so definitive. Sarah Weinman

Science Too Say Evidence Definitive Complexity Only Journalists Trace Matches Narratives Scientists Forensic Suspect Shows They Say

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. Stan Sakai

Funny History Animal Heroes Long Animals First Folk Long History Tales Narratives Were So-Called Literature Japanese Companions Many

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. Stephen Greenblatt

There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here? Susan Barker

I just want different narratives for people of color, especially women of color. I just want something that's different. I don't want us to be put in a box. I want it to be kind of a redefinition of who were are. If I can even achieve that in a tiny way, I'll be good. I'll be good. Viola Davis

People always want narratives to be clean and easy. W. Kamau Bell

People Easy Clean Narratives Always Want

People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong. Winston Duke

Strength People Strong Be Strong Beauty Every Way Definition Sexy See New Look Redefine Vulnerable Narratives Norm Established Different Rewriting Want Interested Means Different People Show Challenging Deeply

I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests. Ashly Burch

Reflect Think Assume I Think About Only Both Particular Boy Narratives Lot Interested Interests Games Play Playing Playing Games

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