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Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood. -- A. S. Byatt
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. -- Jack Brickhouse
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. -- Ben Kingsley
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday. -- Robert Stack
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. -- Jacques Lacan
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. -- Albert Murray
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go? -- L.A. Reid
As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough. -- Tony Verna
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. -- Robert Morgan
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. -- Griffin Dunne
A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things. -- Mike Nichols
Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game. -- Rob Manuel
I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said. -- Mary Lambert
Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place. -- Bob Shacochis
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. -- Raina Telgemeier
I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are a challenge, and I look forward to more work with that in the future. So there's always a sun coming up the following day for me. -- Peter Cullen
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with. -- John Updike
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection. -- Charles Spurgeon
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer. -- Paul Auster
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. -- Steve Sabol
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation. -- Marjane Satrapi
Education is suffering from narration sickness. -- Paulo Freire
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. -- John Fowles
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. -- Earnest Hooton
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. -- Robert Benton
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration. -- David Mamet
I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay. -- John Hurt
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs. -- Vivian Gornick
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering. -- Ben Lerner
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. -- Catherine Brady
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated. -- Patricia Hampl
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies. -- Robert Benton
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it. -- James Lee Burke
If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience). -- David Mamet
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. -- Robert McKee
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home. -- Glenway Wescott
The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us. -- Tom Robbins
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up. -- Barry Hannah

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