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• Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.

  William Buckland

  Life, Nature, Science

  William Buckland (1836). “Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.134

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• I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

  Daryl Hannah

  Stress, Life Is Too Short, Insecure

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• Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

  Lynne Perrie

  School, Years, Magic

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• I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Clever, Humor

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• Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

  Robert Ludlum

  Powerful, Vision, Scene

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Road to Gandolfo: A Novel”, p.8, Bantam

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• Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

  Jonis Agee

  Gun, Crafts

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• Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

  David Mamet

  Independent, Plot, Affliction

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• There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, One Day, Three

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• UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.

  Ewan McGregor

  Hurt, Children, School

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• Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know
  Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'

  Drake

  Causes, Bragging, Should

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• Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Character, Voice

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• The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

  John Millington Synge

  Writing, Symphony, Doe

  John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal
  Persona is unbombable? Trust me son,
  I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to
  allow you that the chronicle has just begun.

  Rakim

  Son, Hip Hop, Trust Me

  Song: The Saga Begins, Album: The 18th Letter

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• If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?

  Ralston Bowles

  Doors, Heaven, Leaving

  "Song: "Draper" ("Carwreck Conversations")". 2004.

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• And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Doe, Three

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

  Amy Weber

  Jobs, Shoes, Accomplishment

  "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.

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• Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

  Phil Lesh

  Anniversary, School, Son

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• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

  George Saunders

  Birthday, Rain, Character

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

  John Berger

  Art, Nature, Night

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.736, Vintage

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• Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Fall, Mean, Destiny

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• There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Religious, Disappointment, Inspire

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• True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Culture, Should, Peace And Happiness

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• Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

  Emilia Clarke

  Writing, School, Honor

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• I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

  Jorge Garcia

  Trying, Humour, Ifs

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls...From what I've experienced, women aren't good friends to one another. When guys want to hang out with you because your personality is badass, women immediately hate you.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Queens, Teenage

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