Slice Of Life – Quotes

For a while, the

For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don’t think it is. It’s just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It’s a slice-of-life. I play a character-that’s it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I’ve been hit on … Read more

I loved to press

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. Deborah Copaken

A lot of the

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make. Dan Trachtenberg

I am not interested

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. Carlos Fuentes

I don’t ever write

I don’t *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. Barbara Kingsolver

Too much of Indian

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people – and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country. Aravind Adiga

There are two ways

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

For me, the cinema

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Alfred Hitchcock

Every novel presents a

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative. Alexander McCall Smith