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“History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.”

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.”

Wanted Class Progress Middle Revolution Evolution Transformation Violent Dramatic Middle Class Victorian Cumulative History Of Life

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.”

People Should Film Can Do Laughing Waste Dramatic Good Times Should I Make You Laugh

Author:Mel Brooks

“The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian oversight of the military inside the Pentagon is really about as exciting as anything you ever want to deal with. It is really amazing.”

Want Deals Military Exciting Incredibles Dramatic Civilians Pentagon Really Amazing Oversight

Author:Dennis Hopper

“If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?”

People Ifs Thinking Way Beautiful Culture Fighting Watches Our Lives Tvs Clothes Hollywood India Surprise Dramatic Our Time Asia Happy Endings Surprise Me Bollywood Dramatic Life

Author:Hillary Clinton

“One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.”

Men Self Personality Trauma Resistance Insanity Dramatic One Man Predictions Invitations Another Man One Woman Take Control Another Woman

Author:Rosellen Brown

“Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.”

Style Products Genius Machines Jew Dramatic Germany

Author:Michel Tournier

“Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.”

Play Games Differences Four Player Fairs Exciting Bridges Dramatic Experts Making A Difference Partnership Rivals

Book:FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY

Source: FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY

“I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."”

People Thinking Long Said Taken Seeing Sick Tired Titles Dramatic Distinction Los Angeles Poetic Articles Long Ago License Poetic License

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.”

People Knows Should Has Beens Character Seems Understanding Fiction Liberty Novel Taken Events Historical Dramatic Poetic License Accord Latitude Historical Novels Poetic License

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.”

Way Believe Enough Form Political Expression Highest Don't Believe Communicate Statements Dramatic Our Time Cartoon Critique Subversive Political Cartoons

Author:Camille Henrot

“I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).”

Ifs Giving Stories Would Be Courses Opportunity Focus Pieces Honest Duty Directors Dramatic Latter Telling The Truth Realistic Truthful Superhero

Author:E.J. Bonilla

“If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.”

People Ifs Feels Self Scene Safe Comfortable Conscious Dramatic Self Conscious Comedic

Author:Jane Levy

“If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.”

Ifs Way Ends Character Might Certain Journey Integrity Opposites One Way Dramatic Polar Opposites

Author:Neil Burger

“He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.”

Thinking Doe Soul Character Moving Interesting Nice Personality Roots Painter Your Soul Dramatic Dull Shakes Very Nice Thorough Turner

Author:Mike Leigh

“There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then there are comedy people that go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do drama." I want to try to do both.”

People Knows Want Trying Stuff Comedy Drama Dramatic

Author:Colin Hanks

“There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.”

Way Different Different Ways Dramatic Not Sure Being Funny

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.”

People Years Hard Lasts Order Bits Deals Progress Crazy Figures Hundred Europe Dramatic Sexist Over The Top Prima Donnas

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.”

Thinking Want Years Has Beens Ideas Use Natural Interesting Path Wonderful Design Computer Highest Machines Exciting Invisible Dramatic Thirty Traveled Fitting Thirty Years Interfaces

Author:Mark Weiser

“The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.”

Care Games Battle Dramatic Resolve Farmers Pitcher Pitching Checkers

Author:Home Run Baker

“While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.”

“Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.”

Remember Memories Dramatic Tense Present Tense

Author:Allen Wier

“In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.”

Writing Ends Character Changed Essence Dramatic Character Change Dramatic Writing

Author:Robert Towne

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

Different Enough Song Voice Imagination Attention Pages Ears Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Prose Ingenuity

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.”

States United United States Months Significant Dramatic Demonstration Unprecedented

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent - a government founded on Christian principles...you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation.”

Government Christian America Purpose Nations Realizing Vision Principles Land God Love Dramatic Accomplished Continents Magnificent

Author:D. James Kennedy

“Never underestimate the importance of simply being physically present in the place God wants you. You may not be asked to perform some dramatic ministry, but simply being there is a ministry.”

Want May Importance Dramatic Ministry Underestimate Being There Never Underestimate

Book:Be Determined: Standing Firm in the Face of Opposition : OT Commentary : Nehemiah

Source: Be Determined: Standing Firm in the Face of Opposition : OT Commentary : Nehemiah

“To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.”

Humans Self Earth Universe Stars Millions Taught Planets Species Billions Astronomy Nine Dramatic Biology Taught Us Center Of The Universe Dramatic Change

Author:Jared Diamond

“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people.”

“I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action.”

Ifs Mean Able Action Roles Taken Exciting Missions Actresses Dramatic Satisfying

Author:Zoe Bell

“When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.”

Trying Film Simple Huge Disaster Narrative Dramatic

Author:Jeremy Bolt

“I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.”

People Ifs Thinking Real Use Shows Lying Deals Situation Real Life Being True Dramatic

Author:Jenji Kohan

“We have committed ourselves to pursue joint policies, but then national governments say, "We aren't bound by that." That is a dramatic situation, because solidarity is a basic principle that cannot be had on an à la carte basis. If we have rules that nobody adheres to, then the community will break apart.”

Ifs Government Community Situation Principles Break Policy Bases Bounds Committed Pursue Dramatic Solidarity Joints Basic Principles Dramatic Situations

Author:Martin Schulz

“When you're caring with your head, there are the things that we talked about that seems boring in baseball. But when you care about your heart, exactly the boring things - a pitcher looking over to first, a batter stepping out and adjusting his gloves - those are just tiresome to the person who's interested. But to the person who's invested, it just makes everything all the more dramatic.”

Firsts Heart Persons Seems Care Baseball Boring Caring Dramatic Pitcher Gloves Adjusting Tiresome Boring Things

Author:Mike Pesca

“Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.”

“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.”

People Humans Stories Values Rights Effects Human Rights Following Awakening Dramatic

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?”

Should Firsts Humans Mean Stories Film Bits Cutting Drama Dramatic Dull Improbable

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.”

Fall Water Dying Pressure Tables Environmental Ice Dramatic Soil Globes Caps Melting Shrinking Eco Glaciers Rainforest Fisheries

Author:Richard Lamm

“There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'”

People Ifs Knows Want Fun Hell Deserve Criticism Performances Screens Planes Accomplishment Dramatic Reviews Snakes Biting Great Performance The Waterfront

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence.”

Thinking Should Stills Different Use Form Used Language Differences Views Existence Environment Artistic Dramatic Making A Difference Impress Lenses Theatrical Cinematic Axes Gimmicks Framing

Author:Ang Lee

“For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.”

I Can Shows Happens Scene Aspect Scary Psychological Dramatic Frightening Thrillers Psychological Thrillers Cracking Up

Author:Kyra Zagorsky

“Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.”

Way Trying Different Form Shapes Projects Silly Dramatic Realistic Entertaining Engaging

Author:Colin Hanks

“Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.”

People Ifs Hard Creative Scene Dramatic Good Times Good Day Had A Good Time

Author:Ayelet Zurer

“I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.”

Looks Play Character Would Be Film Stuff Difficult Interest Interesting Boys Audience Teacher Needed Guilt Instance Former Dramatic Tension Main Characters

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.”

Writing Talent Profession Dramatic Remakes Aversion Exhibitions Pretext Dramatic Writing

Author:William Monahan

“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.”

People Thinking Trying Believe Use Government Political Views Dramatic Forums Electorate Warp Political View Smaller Government

Author:David Mamet

“I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.”

Thinking World Whole Excited Whole World Dramatic Smallpox

Author:Bill Gates

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