Dramatic Quotes - Page 3

• Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Movie, Drama, Book

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• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Writing, Program

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

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• I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

  Casey Kasem

  Voice, Cartoon, Would Be

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• To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

  Katharine Anthony

  Bars, Construction, Biographers

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• Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Character, Dramatic Situations, Opera

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• The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Editing, Requirements, Film

  Edward Dmytryk (2012). “On Film Editing”, p.46, CRC Press

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• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Bob Woodward

  Motherhood, Government, Play

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Cities, Long

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• If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?

  Howie Mandel

  Games, Roles, Tickets

  "Howie Mandel's gamble on 'Deal' pays off". The Associated Press, www.today.com. January 23, 2006.

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• We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Real, Dramatic Situations, Want

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• In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

  Peter Mandelson

  Space, India, China

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• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Religious, Men, Expression

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• I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

  Mel Torme

  Children, Eight, America

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• Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

  Norah Jones

  Fun, Distance, Thinking

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• It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

  James Toback

  Lying, Dramatic Life, Giving

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Drama, Character, Greatness

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• There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Hands, Challenges

  "Art, Truth & Politics". Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 2005.

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• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Art, Laughter

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

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• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Art, Thinking, Scare

  "An Interview with She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward". BlackBook Interview, bbook.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

  Neil LaBute

  Emphasis

  "A Kinder, Gentler Neil LaBute? Getting Romantic With 'Possession'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2002.

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• In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Events, Seems

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Body, Bass

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• I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

  Hilary Duff

  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

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

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• California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Beautiful, Rocks, California

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