Gerald Vizenor Quotes

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Gerald Vizenor

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Way

• When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy
  • Story

• What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Trying
  • You
  • Story

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Care
  • Story

• It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Story
  • Same

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Story

• I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Years
  • Story
  • Toy

• The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Sing

• After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Chance
  • September

• If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Family
  • Vision
  • Story

• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  

  Barry White
  • Song
  • Story
  • Try

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Story
  • Resolution

• What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Story
  • Order
  • Detective

• Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy

• Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Born
  • Duty
  • Citizens

• Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Love
  • Change
  • Light

• I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Want
  • Past
  • Will

• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World
  • True

• Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

  

  Gerald Vizenor
  • Chance
  • Story