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• The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

  Herman Melville

  Doe, Done, Wrecks

  Herman Melville (2015). “Moby-Dick: World Classics”, p.650, World Classic

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• A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Men, Critics

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• I had no sympathy for drama queens.

  Gillian Flynn

  Queens, No Sympathy

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.58, Crown

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• True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Discovery, Expression

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• I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Profound, Stuff

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• I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lonely, Acceptance, Feelings

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• Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Inspirational, Children, Real

  Shirley Hazzard (2003). “The Bay of Noon: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Selfish, Add, May

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• How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Dancing, Twelve

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Landscape, Narrative, Today

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

  Mick LaSalle

  Hangover, Two, Awful

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• With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

  Richard Peck

  World, Shannon, Plain Speaking

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• Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book
  is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the
  fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this
  profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone
  wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these
  idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child,
  make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom-
  anywhere.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Children, Fun, Crazy

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• Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.

  Nick Brandt

  Photography, Art, Single Mom

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• I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book series, and I was like, 'I might not be ready to leave high school after all.'

  Josh Schwartz

  Girl, Book, School

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• I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Hands, Tragedy

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• Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

  Gore Verbinski

  Glasses, Lenses, Use

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• Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.

  Lyn Gardner

  Beautiful, Spring, Thinking

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• All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

  Syd Field

  Character, Cinema, Stories

  Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.17, Delta

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

  David Yates

  Hollywood Films, World, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

  Marianne Faithfull

  School, Sound, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

  Chauncey Depew

  Names, Would Be, Actors

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Oration and memorial addresses”

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• Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

  John P. Kotter

  Ideas, Brain, Stories

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• Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

  Allegra Huston

  Past, Important, Waste

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• A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cities, Fantasy, Solace

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