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• Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.

  Jennifer Worth

  Children, Pain, Joy

  "Call the Midwife: The real life heroine behind major new TV series", www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2012.

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• It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

  Kevin Brooks

  Real, Cameras, Goes On

  Kevin Brooks (2003). “Martyn Pig”, p.33, Scholastic

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• I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamned reason to be sad. And I just think you ought to have a reason. My girlfriend dumped me, so I'm sad. I got caught smoking, so I'm pissed off. My head hurts, so I'm cranky. She never had a reason, Pudge. I was just so tired of putting up with her drama. And I just let her go. Christ.

  John Green

  Girlfriend, Hurt, Tired

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• I never understand why women think drama and bullshit are attractive to guys. They’re not. I’m going to be real clear about this, ladies, so pay attention: Prince Charming doesn't come to rescue cunty lunatics.

  Tucker Max

  Real, Thinking, Bullshit

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Teenage, Heart

  "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.

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• He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

  Julia Quinn

  Passion, Waiting, Might

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• Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas.

  Marissa Meyer

  Real, People, Different

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• Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Reality, Self, Voice

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

  Alison Bechdel

  Parent, Tragedy, Relief

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

  Ruth Ozeki

  New York, Struggle, Bystanders

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• When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  People, Care, Spotlight

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.223, Penguin

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• When your life is working there will be an absence of drama

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Positive, Life Is, Absence

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama.
  Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Reality, Play

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• I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Thinking, Acting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 4-6, 1922.

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• You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.

  Clive Swift

  Character, Winning, Acting

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• So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• You should get completely detached about everything and you will enjoy, just enjoy. But in that also, one has to judge. Are you really enjoying or are you just making a drama out of it? Try to be sincere. Purity is brought forth by sincerity. If you are not sincere to yourself and to others, you cannot be pure.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Lonely, Spring

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama.

  Drake

  Break Up, Girl, Breakup

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• While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

  Aberjhani

  Hope, Art, War

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Beautiful, Baseball, Art

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• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  Alistair Cooke

  War, Memorable, Writing

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Funny, Dumb, Singing

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• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Genius, Talent

  1956 In the New York Times,17 Jun.

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• Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Imagination, Ideal Society

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.89, MIT Press

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