“There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.” PeopleKindCrazyDyingDrugAddictionHonestlyDramaticDrug AddictionDrug AddictPeople Dying Author:Roddy Bottum
“Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.” LanguageDramaticTemperament Author:Luljeta Lleshanaku
“The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution in the globe that has the scale of the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. And you see it with renewable energy and you see it with LED lighting, which takes a fraction of the energy for the existing bulbs. All new lights are going to be LED. Electric vehicles. There are a lot of changes underway right now. I'm excited by the prospect, and I look forward to working in the months and years to come to accelerate this transition.” EnergyRevolutionExcitedSpeedDramaticSustainabilityVehicleElectricRenewable EnergyIndustrial Revolution Author:Al Gore
“Not all of them, but certainly there's some really, really dramatic differences among apples. And what you learn if you have that number of varieties is you learn which Apple is good for which purpose. So I have a favorite apple for apple pie. It's called Bramley Seedling. It's a old British Apple. I blend a lot of these apples together that make apple cider every year. It's a great hobby, but it's, you know, it takes some time. And it can be frustrating when the Japanese beetles or the gypsy moths come.” TogetherPurposeVarietyDramaticFrustratingGypsy Author:Cary Fowler
“Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.” WritingWorryBe GoodBlockDramaticBlocked Author:Mark Kozelek
“When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.” PeopleOpportunityPresidentDramaticTensionAmbitiousNew BeginningsPresident KennedySudden Death Author:Russell Baker
“I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won't look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I'm not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.” ThinkingKindDifficultRevolutionOptimisticDramatic Author:Aaron McGruder
“The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists test for and study the genetics of are about 50 percent inheritable. Introversion, extroversion, it turns out that they're about 50 percent inheritable, which means that somehow sociopathy is physical, it's organic.” MeanStudyPersonalityDramaticPsychologistIntroversion Author:Martha Stout
“I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick Dostoevsky without even thinking about it. Ninety-nine out of 100 Iranians would probably pick Rumi. Kiarostami, too, would probably pick Rumi first. I try to have the meaning be in the action of the story, not in the symbolism. I want it to be in the action, and it's dramatic action that creates the meaning.” ThinkingTryingActionLiteratureHonestlyDramatic Author:Ramin Bahrani
“African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will result in substantial help for people in need during the economic crisis. And then as the economy recovers, we can see dramatic progress against hunger and poverty.” PeopleThinkingHelpingOpportunityPovertyEconomyProgressEconomicCrisisHungerAfrican AmericanDramatic Author:David Beckmann
“Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."” ThinkingMomentsSituationComedySeriousDramaJokesDramaticCommentTrue Life Author:Victor Levin
“I am a director and I think actually they're not that different - dramas and docs aren't that different. When I'm doing a drama I'm trying to make things feel as believable and real as possible. The hair, the make-up, the costume, the design, you're trying to make it authentic. And when you've got a documentary it's all authentic, so what story are you going to tell and how do you make it dramatic and exciting? It's the same thing.” ThinkingTryingDifferentRealDesignDramaExcitingDramatic Author:Asif Kapadia
“Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same thing! The product is the sexuality of the actual labourers: flesh. I think in that sense, the exploitative nature of unencumbered capitalism is made even more dramatic.” ThinkingCapitalismSexualityDramatic Author:David Simon
“Especially now, the immigrant problem is very dramatic around the world. Because we don't know what to do with them. They're in economic crisis, and there are more and more. There will be more and more. We speak about globalization of economy, but it's also globalization for immigration. Millions of people, they're willing to have a better life. A better life, they cannot have it where they live, so they move.” PeopleWorldProblemMovingSpeakEconomyEconomicCrisisImmigrationDramaticGlobalizationBetter Life Author:Costa-Gavras
“Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.” MeanAbilityAudienceAchieveLike YouScenePerformingDramaticReally MeanImprovisationClosureCabaret Author:Stephen Colbert
“For a while last summer I was depressed because nothing was happening. It got to the point where people like me were getting films, so I decided to focus on stand-up. It kind of saved my life. I hate to be that dramatic, but I got a girlfriend and refocused my life on being more real and living a regular life rather than pursuing this other false goal of television and movie stardom.” PeopleKindRealFilmHateGoalFocusSummerI HateDramaticGirlfriendMovie Star Author:Bobby Lee
“I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring and you're in the bus and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place, you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.” PeopleListeningMeetingsDramaticBusMeeting New People Author:Tom Odell
“I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a girly film. I wanted to make something sweet, pink. With a boy it was too dramatic and too heavy. I had a lot of pleasure with the boys in In the House, I said, "This time I will do a film with girls."” BeautifulFilmGirlHousePleasureBoysSweetDramaticGirlyYoung And Beautiful Author:Francois Ozon
“I would like to play some character that's somewhat dramatic. I don't see myself ever becoming that serious, or it sounds weird, but I don't see myself doing something that's really dramatic but somewhat dramatic. I would like to do something that's more real and doesn't have to be laugh out loud funny. I always like whatever I'm involved in... whether it be funny or whether it be somewhat like... I'm not gonna try to get people to really cry.” PeopleTryingRealCharacterLaughingCrySeriousDramaticLaugh Out Loud Author:Jon Heder
“I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I have married a man who is simply the grownup version of my first love. So, I believe my first love was just preparing me for the man I'm married to today. And it has also impacted the way I write, because there will always be a love story in every movie I write. Always! I think having a positive first love experience before the heartbreak made me a more confident in who I am, a more confident female today.” ThinkingMenWritingBelieveHeartEnoughTodayI BelieveHe ManLuckyMarriedFemaleAffairLove StoryDramaticFirst LoveTeenageLove AffairGrownupsVery Romantic Author:Amma Asante
“It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.” RealSometimesTermChallengesPossibilityInfiniteReal LifeDramaticOverwhelmed Author:Daniel Clowes
“I have done much more dramatic work than comedic work, but I think comedy is harder than drama in a way. I think it's one of those things that's constantly discussed - people who do comedy think it's harder, people who do drama think it's harder. Usually drama is the one that gets this highbrow respect.” PeopleThinkingDoneComedyDramaDramaticComedic Author:Peter Vack
“I had been, like, 'I don't wanna be a singer anymore', so dramatic, but when I was recording with Brian Higgins I was like, oh my god I love this, I love these songs, I love what this is. And then we just kept on working and working until we got more songs.” SongDramatic Author:Nadine Coyle
“If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.” MenWorldGivingProblemDramaticIntimateLook UpCigaretteLit Author:Lauren Bacall
“When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.” ThinkingIndependentDramaticLiving Alone Author:Lauren Bacall
“The college students come out and they’re doing something for the first time, so by definition it’s dramatic for the most part, but most people don’t jump out of the airplane or sign up to become a French clown. That’s not the move they’re mostly making. They’re mostly making things a little bit better where they are and so to make things a little better where you are, you really got to get underneath what’s bugging you, what is working for you.” PeopleMovingStudentsCollegeFirst TimeDramaticAirplaneClownCollege Students Author:Dave Evans
“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.” ThinkingMenKindSituationLaughingEqualDifficultyShameElectionPresidentialDramaticPresidential Election Author:Ai Weiwei
“My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. I need to say, "Okay, enough, take the easy road." But the easy road for me is not - it might just come out coincidentally. I wouldn't ever choose a movie because it's easy. I might choose a movie because I feel like being funny, or I feel like being able to do something that is perhaps dramatic, but to a lesser degree. Because I like switching it up, basically, not because I would take the easier road.” EnoughCharacterProblemEasyDifficultChallengesEmotionTalentOkayDramatic Author:Gerard Butler
“With the arrival of the refugees in 2015, it became impossible to ignore that the period of uninterrupted sunshine that Germany had enjoyed had come to an end. The vast problems of the 21st century are knocking on our door. That is also true of the dramatic changes that we can see globally, for example with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. You can't win people over by saying nothing and biding your time, as Angela Merkel has tried to do. People want leadership - in the best sense of the term.” PeopleProblemWinningTermImpossibleElectionDramaticSunshine21st CenturyRefugee Author:Joschka Fischer
“When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors. For me it's important making that transition seamless, and not a huge shock and jumping into cold water. It doesn't feel like I'm trying to shock you or anything. I'm just saying, "I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words." I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy, but I love dramatic movies just as much.” ThinkingTryingImportantDifferentRunningKidsWaterComedyColdDramaWork OutCurseDramaticComedicJust Saying Author:Jonah Hill
“As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.” WritingTryingCharacterActingSituationComedyHonestStyleDramaBeing HonestDramatic Author:Jonah Hill
“I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid that would bump my knee and scream and cry as if I'd been shot in the face. So just automatically, the only outlet for my drama was acting and I loved theater.” ThinkingKidsActingCryDramaDramaticScream Author:Alanna Masterson
“Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".” PeopleChanceMarriedToughSuicideCarefulDramaticDivorcedCommitting Suicide Author:Billy Corgan
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.” PeopleThinkingLongHoursForgetMusicalArguingDramaticTechnologicalVinyl Author:Annie E. Clark
“Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.” PeopleSchoolRememberFirst TimeDramatic Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“People who follow the principles of the Bible - even unknowingly - tend to have a dramatic impact on their world. For instance, no one would argue that it's a bad idea "to love your neighbor as yourself". On the other hand, those who don't follow it's principles or misuse the principles of the Bible for their own purposes can have equally devastating impact.” PeopleWorldPurposeLove YouNeighborArguingDramatic Author:Steve Green
“I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward any theme or narrative. But once I really got serious about putting together a book, I began to see that in fact there were themes across the poems, if only because my own obsessions had brought me back time and again to the same ground. I realized that any ordering of the poems would determine how those themes developed over the manuscript, and how the collection's dramatic conflicts were resolved.” WritingBookTogetherSeriousConflictDetermineI RealizedObsessionDramatic Author:James Arthur
“One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.” PeopleReasonMathematicsFamiliarVarietyMathematicalDramatic19th Century Author:Richard F. Heck
“People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.” PeopleFunUncomfortableDramatic Author:Linda Cardellini
“You're in orbit over the Earth. And suddenly it's very, very quiet. It's dramatic. You realize you're floating in the straps in your chair. And you take off your seat belt and float over to the window and look out, and you realize, "I'm not looking at a picture, here." I couldn't process it all. Even if I forget everything else in my life, that will stay with me, burned into my brain until the day I die.” EarthRealizingForgetBrainQuietWindowDramaticStay With Me Author:Marc Garneau
“For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile when I make a film. It's a process of dealing with loneliness. And it's also very dramatic - because while you are working on a film, you just realize how incapable you are of dealing with all these things. And you open yourself up, and it's like your heart is utterly exposed. And it's very tiring on a daily basis.” HeartKindFilmRealizingLonelinessLike YouDramaticFilmmakingTire Author:Tamer El Said
“Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found I wanted to have more of a voice: to actually say something. I wanted to do something more personal over a long period of time, with more authorship.” LongIndividualPhotographyDramatic Author:Olivia Arthur
“I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.” ThinkingTryingSometimesMusic IsMusicalDramaticTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Andy Gill
“A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.” FirstsFatherDadFirst TimeDramaticYour Dad Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.” ThinkingLittlesIdeasBigsGrowsCompanyDramaticNew Ideas Author:Jaron Lanier
“There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, "Come in here and do this."” KnowsNeedsPlayFactsShowsGuyActorsRolesFantasticDramaticTerrific Author:Denis Leary
“My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.” WellsMotherConflictDramaticMother Love Author:Ang Lee
“I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.” WantPlayActorsTakenStageSeriousGoes OnBecomingWalkingAthleteScreensDramaticCameos Author:Carl Lewis
“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.” PeopleIfsShowsWantedLaughingFoolTablesSticksComicDramaticShowing OffMilton Author:Jerry Lewis
“At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.” CountryAnswersStepsCrisisUnionsDebtDramaticStabilityEuroWrong Answers Author:Angela Merkel