“A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.” TwoTogetherStruggleSpecialBrotherDramaLeagueMy BrotherEmpoweredJoiningTwo SistersJoining TogetherSticking Together Author:Rebel Wilson
“Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.” MenBookAmericaPresidentPartyStruggleGenerationsPerspectiveBabyDramaAspectBillsDemocraticClintonCastsComplicatedGuidesDestroyedTitlesGreekFascinatingJustifyAmbitiousBiographiesTestimonyDemocratic PartySagaPostmodernBoomersBaby BoomerPresident Bill ClintonGreek Drama Author:Nigel Hamilton
“I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.” KnowsEndsSchoolStruggleDramaCash Author:Dawn French
“The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it I struggle more with drama because I started out in comedy.” WritingWellsMillionsLaughingStruggleComedyDrama Author:Woody Allen
“The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.” ThinkingWellsTwoIdeasPlayLife IsFightingEvilRaceAudienceStruggleMoralityDramaStrikesSensualTriumphCinemaBoxingTwo ThingsInsecurityAncestorPrimalGood Against EvilLife Is A Struggle Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.” PeopleSaidTwoIdeasMomentsChoicesSimpleStruggleDramaOppositesExtrasFree WillSpearsProtagonistsCarrierMaking ChoicesJungTwo Opposites Author:Wayne Dyer
“I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.” IfsThinkingWritingWould BeWatchesStruggleDramaShiningHeavyFocusedDepressingExhaustingHighlightsSlamPathos Author:Jenji Kohan
“That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.” NeedsLongLife IsLostHoursLinesWalksHalfStruggleStreetsBrotherDramaMoonPlotConvolutedPlot LinesLost Brother Author:Ricky Gervais
“I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.” ThinkingTogetherStuffCommunityClassStruggleDramaDistinctionAddressesTimelessClass Distinction Author:Ira Sachs
“I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.” PeopleStruggleHuman NatureDrama Author:Laura Dern
“People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.” PeopleStruggleIdentityDramaContradictionDesperationSolaceTranscendentalDrastic Author:Hyon Gyon
“The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.” EndsGoalStruggleHeroDramaDiscoveryBasesInevitableRealisingCivilisationSpecific Goals Author:David Mamet
“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.” MenWantGivingUseWinningLeftFeltLosesSituationStruggleOur LivesFailingExpressionBearsDramaLeavingMetaphorBurdenRevengeDramaticUnbearablePersecutedLightnessWin Or LoseHeavinessUnbearable Lightness Of BeingUnbearable LightnessLeaving HimDramatic Situations Author:Milan Kundera
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.” HumansKindDifferentBigsSeemsUniverseEvilHuman BeingsSpaceAnimalViewsWatchesStruggleAtheismStagePlanetsDramaAtheistComplicatedRangeGood And EvilAtomsDifferent KindsMarvelousTime And SpaceComplicated Things Book:The Quotable Feynman Source: The Quotable Feynman
“We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.” PeopleWantGivingRealFallHoursWalksInterestingHalfStruggleFeetStreetsDramaOrdinaryWindowExtraordinaryReal LifeOrdinary People Author:Ricky Gervais
“She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.” PeopleHumansLinesCitiesStruggleEnvironmentNew YorkNeededDramaBuiltSpeciesCrowdsArchitectureWitnessLandscapeNew York CityUrbanIntrigueStraight LinesCity LifeBystandersPower StruggleBuilt EnvironmentUrban Landscape Author:Ruth Ozeki