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“With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.”

Want Character Seems Turns Interesting Modern Fit Drama Lucky Bigger Budgets Want U Cables Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.”

Made Light Turns Loses Journey Adventure Drama Function Spread Missions Core Wander Rays Void Bubbles Bent Penetrate Soap Brightness Blackness Sparkle Blocked Soap Bubbles

Book:Fun in a Chinese Laundry

Source: Fun in a Chinese Laundry

“Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.”

Mind Body Turns Social Vision Tvs Return Drama Behavior Tunes Temples Sacraments Sequence Turn-on Reborn Getting High

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.”

Want Bigs Turns Sports Decision Plans Drama Seasons Down And Management Settling Coaching Staff Definite Settling Down Coaching Staff

Author:Steve Yzerman

“Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.”

People Long Turns Crime Television Comfort Drama Going Away Reassurance

Author:Tom Shales

“There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.”

People Art Form Used Turns Fire Imagine Seeing Drama Scared Radio Hearing Eras Turn-on

Author:Martin Short

“Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.”

Thinking Feels Action Turns Natural Space Effort Comedy Cutting Drama Shots Action Movie Goofy

Author:Michael Jai White

“The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.”

People Ifs Way Want Character Desire Turns Events Drama Conflict Essence Internals Combustion Desire To Change

Author:Miranda Richardson

“The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.”

“As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I think that's where the juiciest conversations and the juiciest drama lives. My goal with the series is to get people talking about and reflecting on how issues of race play out in their own lives. Since I've spent a fair amount of time watching time travel shows and movies where the leads are White (and can blend in really easily no matter the time period) I thought I would turn that on its head and see what might happen.”

“I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.”

Film Turns Novel Successful Television Drama Series

Author:William Golding

“Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges.”

People Ifs Knows Real Turns Drama Narrative Unpredictable Documentaries

Author:Cosima Spender

“I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.”

“From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.”

Ifs Wanted Turns Ability Comedy Drama Majors Series Dialogue All Time Screenwriters Dimes Woody Pathos

Author:Jason Reitman

“Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.”

Humor Turns Drama Humorous Mellow Melodrama

Author:Ram Dass

“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.”

“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.”

May Form Suffering Turns Culture Religious Inspire Source Birth Drama Authority Illusion Disappointment Awakening Resistance Inherent Discouragement Practicality

Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand”

Persons Turns Drama Concerned Average Playwright Average Person

Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.”

Turns Periods Drama Radio Hearing Costumes Turn Off

Author:Steve Coogan

“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.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Want Happens Would Be Together Moving Turns Next Hurt Simple Trouble Worst Rocks Wind Drama Stones Blow Sand Meant To Be Simple Life Next Life Meant To Be Together

Author:Ah Ken

“Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.”

Doe Ideas Play Character Might Turns Fate Drama Accomplish Tragic Gaps Turn-on Shakespeare's Plays

Book:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.”

World Character America Turns Written Modern Drama Plot Gossip Buttons Modern World Website Tabloids Columnists Interactive

Author:A. A. Gill

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