Dramatic Quotes

• Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong Women, Destiny, Names

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• But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

  Douglas Hurd

  Character, Suffering, Germany

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• Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Plot, Actors, Today

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• In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Funny, Drama, Action

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• I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

  Owen Wilson

  Roles

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• I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

  Casey Kasem

  Team, Opportunity, Korea

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• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  Kate Smith

  Home, Groups, Towns

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• I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

  Ken Curtis

  West, Roles, Grew

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• I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

  James Daly

  Historical, Sitting, Planets

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• Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

  Judy Davis

  Men, Dramatic Situations, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Cutting, Long

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• To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

  Lukas Foss

  Ideas, Together

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• I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

  Topher Grace

  Drama, Next Day, One Day

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• I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

  David Naughton

  Art, New York, Careers

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• I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Running, Imf, Thailand

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• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  Aaron McGruder

  Important, Scare, News

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• I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

  Courtney Love

  Fun, Caring, Years

  "Courtney Love ordered to drug treatment". The Associated Press, www.today.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role

  Dinah

  Roles, Type, Genevieve

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• They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

  Harvey Keitel

  Roles, Weight, Equal

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• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Dark, Theatre

  1955 In the New York Mirror, 27 May.

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• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

  Lawrence Summers

  Important, Economic History, Asian

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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, Drama

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

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• When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, School, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

  Clark Moustakas

  Men, Mind, Arena

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