“Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingMayCharacterStoriesRememberActorsGivenVoiceResultsFictionToo MuchMissingAmountDramaElementsWhat You WantDialogueStorytellerPlaywright Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“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
“If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?” IfsReasonHeavenDoorsDramaLeaving Author:Ralston Bowles
“I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.” IfsWantFeelsMadeCharacterHalfReaderDramaRainBirthdaySugarBleakness Author:George Saunders
“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.” IfsGivingMeanTurnsFallCoursesDealsExistenceDestinyAliveSkyHavensReadySorrowDramaProveUnderstoodTestsSurpriseFollowingShipsAssumptionExpectingPersistOur DestinyYour DestinyOrdeals Author:Yasmina Khadra
“I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.” IfsTryingHumourDrama Author:Jorge Garcia
“I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.” IfsWantHas BeensReasonCharacterKidsSchoolPainGirlRoomsCareersGrowingDramaHigh SchoolStartingClubsActressesMaking UpGrowing PainsDrama Club Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do. It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake. Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it. Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber. I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake. It's such an unfair term to us.” IfsWorldWantMadeUseShowsBodyWould BeActionHateTermComedyTelevisionDramaShotsI HateFakeOutcomesChairsUnfairSlamRubberPredeterminedStuntmanTelevision Drama Author:Chris Jericho
“I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.” IfsGivingMayHomeAbleReadingCreativityComedyStageWillingReadyDramaOfficeShotsPerformancesScriptsEditingWebsiteReconstructing Author:Dane Cook
“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
“Whatever kind of movie it is, youre going to be more into it when you care more about the drama, or youll have a better laugh if you feel like you know the people better.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsKindCareLaughingLike YouDrama Author:Luke Wilson
“The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.” IfsWritingMindHumansMeanMatterCausesProcessHuman BeingsFictionDramaConflictDiscoveryDirectPressurePropagandaMeaning Of LifeUnconsciousWhere You AreInwardFiction WritersWriting Fiction Author:Nadine Gordimer
“IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.” IfsWritingCharacterSpeakDramaSilentCantSilent Movies Author:David Mamet
“I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.” IfsWayLongI CanIdeasMatterPainSpaceFiguresMinesPaintingIntegrityDramaHorsePaintIntensityBecause I CanAnger Love Author:Willem de Kooning
“An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.” IfsFeelsAgeLinesLaughingSeriousLike YouDramaAdultsIntenseSmallestLeafsTestedEighteen Author:Ryu Si-won
“If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock. A stone has no troubles and lives a simple life. The worst that could happen would be being stepped on, but that won't hurt. Am I right? What about you? What are you thinking? I've already thought it over for you. You'll become the wind. Because the wind is one of the world's cleanest things. Moreover, the wind can blow upon the rock, moving it. As it blows, the rock will eventually turn into sand. This way, the sand and wind can be together. Sand and wind are meant to be together.” IfsThinkingWorldWayWantHappensWould BeTogetherMovingTurnsNextHurtSimpleTroubleWorstRocksWindDramaStonesBlowSandMeant To BeSimple LifeNext LifeMeant To Be Together Author:Ah Ken
“I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.” IfsHardCareLostDramaLegsHard TimesWheelchairsHaving A Hard Time Author:Na Hae Ryeong
“Every morning I look in the mirror and make a promise to myself. To stop acting like this today. That Mi Soo is a good friend. That John only loves me. But it doesn't work that well. I feel like I'm going crazy if John even smiles at Mi Soo. Even when they sit across from one another! I really feel like I'm going to die.” IfsFeelsWellsLooksTodayDiesActingMorningCrazyPromiseDramaMirrorsEvery MorningGood FriendOnly LoveGoing Crazy Author:Na Hae Ryeong
“Being unhappy means... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.” IfsWantFeelsMeanHelpingLostDarkLove IsDarknessLike YouDramaUnhappySunshineScarBeing UnhappyWants To Be Alone Author:Min Sook Lee
“Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.” IfsPastDramaFlames Author:Yeong-hun Kim
“Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.” IfsChildrenParentDramaUselessOutstandingShameful Author:Seo Won
“If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.” IfsWorldChildrenMotherBreakThis WorldBabyDramaAttachmentGood Place Author:Park Gye-Ok
“I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.” IfsThinkingWantCountryWould BeFilmOpportunityFunDramaProductionsChineseForeign Countries Author:Lee Min-ho
“You know them days you just got the blues, All stressed and depressed from just watchin' the news? No matter what good you do, it seems you always get screwed. Got you caught up in your feelings, now you off in the mood. Shake that attitude and do what you can, Set a couple goals, follow through with your plans. Time waits for no man and tomorrow's not promised, So if she's still alive, shoot a call to your mama. Cause the fighting and the drama, it's just not worth it, Nobody's perfect, ain't none of us worthless. We all got a place, and we all got a purpose.” IfsKnowsMenStillsMatterFeelingsSeemsPurposeFightingCausesWaitingGoalPerfectAttitudeAlivePlansCoupleTomorrowDramaNewsNo Matter WhatCaughtHip HopRapMoodShakesWorth ItCaught UpWorthlessMamaStressedFollow ThroughNot Worth ItNobody's Perfect Author:MURS
“Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.” IfsFeelsWellsUsedSecretStudyWrittenShareCollegeDramaRomanticUsed To BeOddRomantic LoveEmbarrassingComedicMost Romantic Author:Gary Lineker
“Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.” IfsThinkingLifeHumansEarthNextImaginationCompassionDramaProjectsSurvivalResourcesGardenPopulationSexualityDisappearTreatedBreathingSoilCarrieEntityNext TimeStewardsHuman PopulationLifelines Author:Marjorie Harris
“Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly” IfsKnowsWorldHumansDoeSaidStuffInterestBehindsTechnologyFashionHuman NatureDramaNewsIllusionEconomicsMagazinesPatheticPredictablePortalNewnessPolitics And EconomicsHe Said She Said Author:Stewart Brand
“The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.” IfsLightLeftDarkGoneDramaPhotographyPhotographer Book:Light, Gesture, and Color Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.” IfsStillsTogetherRememberFunTvsCoupleDramaMarriedSensualHaving FunBeing MarriedLove Each OtherHoneymoonSensuous Author:Aaron Spelling
“It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.” IfsThinkingStoriesSeemsHappensCausesEasySuccessfulComedyDramaConflictLove StoryTensionMisunderstandingIconicDiscordEscapists Author:Claire Danes
“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.” IfsWayGivingLittlesArtPlayUniverseStarsRolesDramaCreatingAnd LoveMethodIslandsLive ByWorks Of ArtWarmthCosmicDiscoveringNo PointArt And ScienceMaking UpDespicableIgnobleDiscovering ThingsWarmth And Love Author:Steven Weinberg
“When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.” IfsKindStoriesCareFilmLyingEmotionSawsMysteryStyleDramaCrossesBillsWesternDon't CareI Don't CareBowsIncidentsNoirJuliusFilm Noir Author:Samuel Fuller
“It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.” PeopleIfsPlayYoungDesireFatherDadDramaConventionsGoing OutNightclubs Author:Ian Hart
“I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.” IfsKindStoriesCareLyingEmotionMysteryDramaCrossesWesternDon't CareI Don't CareDeceitBobJuliusFilm NoirBrutus Author:Samuel Fuller
“If I've learned anything, it's there's just no drama, which is awesome. I've also just learned to read when it's a good time to talk about something serious and when it's not. And whenever I start to have a conversation with them, and I kind of see their eyes start to glaze over, I'm like, 'Okay, another time is better.' You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!” IfsKindTwoEyeGuySeriousDramaBandConversationMarriedOkayPreparedHonestlyCompromiseI've LearnedGood TimesAnother TimeTwo GuysNo Drama Author:Hillary Scott
“I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.” IfsThinkingBelieveArtFormI BelieveFitDramaRapIdolsAmerican Idol Author:Nigel Lythgoe
“The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death” IfsNeedsWellsMaySpiritSocialBornCreativeBirthDramaMoonThese DaysMartyrSymbolicNew MoonCreative SpiritCollectivityIncorporation Author:Dane Rudhyar
“When I stand on stage, I get nervous, and because unexpected situations can occur, we need even more preparation. I must have confidence on top of that as well. The reason why I chose drama/theatre as my major is to act after learning all the theory first. You only live once, and I can only live as myself. I think I could learn a lot of things if I can live as others through acting.” IfsThinkingNeedsFirstsWellsI CanReasonActingSituationStageTheoryDramaMajorsTheatreNervousPreparationReason WhyUnexpectedHave ConfidenceYou Only Live Once Author:Seohyun
“If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.” PeopleIfsWantWantedLostDramaOppositesTragedyBows Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The dramas we encounter are part and parcel of being human. If we experienced no change or drama in our lives, if nothing unexpected ever happened, we would merely be like automatons, our lives unbearably monotonous and dull. Therefore, please develop a strong self so that you can enact the drama of your life with confidence and poise in the face of whatever vicissitudes you may encounter.” IfsHumansMaySelfSometimesHappensFacesSufferingStrongInterestingOur LivesHappenedPleaseDramaThings HappenEncountersDullUnexpectedBeing HumanJoyousMonotonousPoiseParcelVicissitudesStrong Self Author:Daisaku Ikeda