“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.” HumansCharacterFactsCultureReligiousFailingDramaSickMedicineIllnessMedicalInevitableNarrativeImmortalityVulnerabilityTreatmentAggressiveHeroicQuestsParticipantsInadequacyPathology Author:Suzanne Gordon
“In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.” CulturePositionDramaSucceedFemaleAssumingMalesAncientConstructs Author:John Maus
“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.” WantArtImportantSometimesCultureHousePresidentCommunityExistenceCompanySupportDramaActivityOfficeArt IsPlantArchitectureStatementsCorporationsVisibleReportsExecutivesInteriorsGoodwillUndertakingsAnnualsGood BusinessBedfellowsAnnual Reports Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.” FeelsWritingWellsWould BeCultureLiteratureInterestTalkingGenerationsDramaFolksBritishTheatreRussiaBackgroundsExceptionalObligedPlaywrightMy GenerationRussian LiteratureBackground Knowledge Author:Tom Stoppard
“I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsLooksMeanArtPlayCareCultureLiteratureNumbersMillionsDramaDon't CareI Don't CareGreekVolumeSheerLooking BackHandfulDevalue Author:Cormac McCarthy
“Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it'. When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.” ThinkingFeelingsMightHappensEyeActionCertainCultureWishKnownDramaElementsCarefulRevengeBe CarefulAmerican CultureGood ActionsEye For An EyeCareful What You Wish For Author:Niels Arden Oplev
“There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.” ArtCulturePassionAirDramaSittingUncomfortableSeatsDamp Author:Sheridan Morley
“Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.” PeopleKnowsIdeasMightCultureCoursesStreetsLike YouDramaClothesRegardFancyOpera Author:Howard Rheingold
“A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and power of the Church has stayed with me. As a child in church, I saw grown men at the altar crying out for God's mercy. And the idea of someone doing that has become a joke in the popular culture, but when you are there and you see it, you experience - for a moment - an incredibly raw, honest, strange insight into what it means to be a human being. Those experiences don't leave you. Whatever you think of them, they are powerful experiences.” ThinkingMenMeanChildrenMomentsCultureBeliefChurchPowerfulHonestCryStrangeDramaJokesMercyInsightPopular CultureBelief In God Author:Ayana Mathis
“The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.” PeopleHumanityCultureStudyDramaOrdinary People Author:Marcie Cohen Ferris
“An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.” PeopleFirstsImportantStoriesSeemsPastMovingCultureGrowsAcceptingBuildingDramaHorrorComplainingMoving ForwardBoredResolveAllowingHorror StoriesNew CulturesVenting Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.” PeopleIfsMenWayNeedsEndsDiesCultureCitiesPovertyBreakDramaWasteNormalComputerNewsMen And WomenTragedyProfitIncomeThrownIdolsConsumptionTrash Author:Pope Francis
“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.” MayFormSufferingTurnsCultureReligiousInspireSourceBirthDramaAuthorityIllusionDisappointmentAwakeningResistanceInherentDiscouragementPracticality Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
“True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.” ShouldCultureDramaPeace And HappinessTrue Wisdom Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
“As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.” IfsNeedsDifferentCultureWaitingForgetExampleDramaNotionI RealizedRangeMeatNever ForgetVegetarianVeganMentalityPanicPigsCowboyAmerican CultureGood HealthHysteriaVegetarian HealthForlornEating AnimalsVery RomanticDifferent Mentality Author:Cloris Leachman
“A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.” NeedsHumansStoriesLightCulturePowerfulComedyHonestDramaTragedyShiningCleanCornersStorytellingEvolveSatireDegeneratesPseudoHuman Psyche Book:Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.” WritingEnoughDreamPastOrderCultureReadingDramaLettersInteriorsElegancePretentiousSpelling Author:Gaston Bachelard