“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.” PeopleIfsMadeRealKidsGrowsStuffRoomsFocusCoupleDramaCommitment Author:Jeremy Sisto
“Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayall the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is goingand write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardStoriesTodayBitsSoundFocusTroubleAdviceKeysDramaRight NowFollowingDistractionPublishingKey To Success Author:Jeff Abbott
“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsLightViewsDarknessFocusChildhoodHavensInvolvedDramaGuiltBlockInnocencePushingJust BeingPushing Away Author:Marianne Williamson
“If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being the drama critic for the New York Times. So if you come from a background like that and you want to actually have a career which involves doing something noble in the world, what can you do? You can join the army. That's about it. Or you can work for the church. That explains a lot of the focus of right-wing populism. The right wing figured that out, that people want enough to survive and to do good.” PeopleWorldEnoughFatherChurchFocusImagineDramaArmyCriticsCeoRight Wing Author:David Graeber
“I've been on my share of network dramas and comedies, and the problem sometimes in a network is they have a single-minded focus on making the show true to whatever genre it is. If you're on a drama, it better be procedural, it better fulfill all the demands of a procedural show, and you better keep those episodes independent, so if I'm watching the show in seven years as its syndicated on some other cable network, I don't have to know what happened before or after the episode. If you're on a comedy, everything has to be funny and wacky and zany.” SometimesProblemComedyFocusShareDramaIndependentSevenWacky Author:Mark Feuerstein
“Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.” PeopleKnowsMenWayRememberBlackDarkComedyFocusSeeingInfluenceSpecialEventsExampleProudDramaGayBenefitsSingingObviousEngagedFancyRealisticBlack PeoplePlaywrightAugustChorusArthurGay MenSatiricalDark Comedy Author:Daniel J. Sullivan
“The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.” YearsHas BeensHardWould BeLastsRememberFunPartyFocusCrazyHard WorkDramaSix Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.” WayTryingIdeasMomentsLightKidsParentEmotionQualityFocusOur LivesProduceStrangeDramaNormalExtremesParenthoodCaptureNutsSwingsPrimalBipolarLight UpBeing A ParentComforter Author:Emma Donoghue