Best drama & magic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.”

Passion Magic Movement Poet Drama Theater Variety Rejoice Spectators Resent

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'”

“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.”

Knows Writing Children Real Wanted School Film Growing Up Teacher Growing Wonderful Magic Drama Theater Scripts Experts Magician Wonderful Friends Houdini

Author:Kristen Connolly

“Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.”

Stills Play Found Games Perfect Magic Drama Baseball Dimensions Hockey Momentary

Author:Roy MacGregor

“[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."”

Said Stories Views Comedy Magic Drama Point Of View Telling Stories

Author:David Copperfield

“The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.”

Actors Differences Powerful Magic Drama Available Granted Trickery

Author:Hake Talbot

“Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.”

Ifs Years Has Beens School Ability Magic Drama Pure Performances Sells Fortune Bottles

Author:Lynne Perrie

“My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.”

Lost Magic Mystery Childhood Drama Bourgeois

Book:Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

Source: Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

“The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.”

Love Form Purpose Found Sex Too Much Magic Drama Rain Surprise Shoes Smell Pockets Excess Hollow Glare Allure Tangerines

Book:Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

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