With Oranges, I had created a marvellous cover version for what my narrative was, whereby I didn't need to go back any further and explore what my life was like before adoption".
For me, the test with each news story is to see how that story affects my narrative for Uber, and by extension, my estimate of its value.
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How many times can a TV host dig for another I-am-a-gay-truck-driving-stuffed-animal-fetishist-and-I-have-to-tell-my-wife-and-my-three-grown-children-that-I'm-leaving-them-for-my-boyfriend's-grandmother narrative, to keep up the ratings?
But competing with him will make it harder for me to establish a distinct narrative for my vision of non-technocratic, neo-horizontally post-hierarchical "Next Labour".
Robert Harris The latest selection from Alan Clark's Diaries, Into Politics (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) still offers, for my money, the strongest narrative voice of the year - an elongated Etonian drawl of selfishness, lechery, snobbishness, hypochondria, self-delusion and melancholy, all of which are transfigured by the razor quality of Clark's prose and his reckless honesty.
As part of the research for my new book, a narrative encyclopaedia of spices called The Book of Spice, I read a lot of historical cookery books, but also a lot of novels – which I hoped would yield information about food storage and preparation.
- Darla Miller | 3rd grade | Philadelphia, MS. "I want to be a change agent, and create a new narrative for my students which says that they can and will be who they want to be.
Someone who might help me prove I'm not the sexless loner you imagine me to be, and provide an exciting, all-new 'Did he pull?' narrative for my photographs of depressing rubble to cling to.
A long time ago, I tried to create a narrative for my life that was supposed to go like this: I was going to work very, very hard at Goldman Sachs, start my own business and retire by age 30, get married and have children.
