#story

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. ↗

— John Malkovich

#certain things #facts #factual #history #how

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anything #concentrate #few #filmmakers #get

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#begin #being #bit #contemporary #even

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#chorus #dialogue #greek #had #hamptons

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#important #important point #new #new orleans #orleans

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#history #into #own #sometimes #takes

Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story." ↗

— Yann Martel

#away #battle #especially #find #half

Most of us get our history through story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#history #most #our #story #through