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• Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Laughing, Waste

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• The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian oversight of the military inside the Pentagon is really about as exciting as anything you ever want to deal with. It is really amazing.

  Dennis Hopper

  Military, Want, Incredibles

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• If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

  Hillary Clinton

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

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

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• One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

  Rosellen Brown

  Men, Self, Insanity

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• Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.

  Michel Tournier

  Style, Germany, Genius

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• Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Player, Differences, Games

  ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”

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• I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Tired, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Character, Poetic License

  Source: collider.com

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• The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.

  Camille Henrot

  Believe, Expression, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).

  E.J. Bonilla

  Opportunity, Giving, Focus

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

  Jane Levy

  Self, People, Safe

  Source: collider.com

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• If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.

  Neil Burger

  Integrity, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.

  Mike Leigh

  Nice, Moving, Character

  "Mike Leigh, Unscripted". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2014.

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• There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then there are comedy people that go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do drama." I want to try to do both.

  Colin Hanks

  Drama, People, Trying

  "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Different, Way, Not Sure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crazy, Order, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.

  Mark Weiser

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

  Home Run Baker

  Games, Battle, Care

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• While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.

  Allan F. Packer

  Prayer, Powerful, Thinking

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• Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

  Allen Wier

  Memories, Remember, Tense

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• In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

  Robert Towne

  Writing, Character, Essence

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• Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Voice, Imagination

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  United States, Months, Significant

  "'Center for American Progress's New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference, November 25, 2003'". "Congressional Record: Volume 149, Part 23", 2008.

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• God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent - a government founded on Christian principles...you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Government, Land

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• Never underestimate the importance of simply being physically present in the place God wants you. You may not be asked to perform some dramatic ministry, but simply being there is a ministry.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Ministry, May, Want

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2009). “Be Determined: Standing Firm in the Face of Opposition : OT Commentary : Nehemiah”, p.144, David C Cook

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