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“When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.”

People Thinking Firsts Bigs Seems Remember Five Type First Time Dramatic Concerts Depressing Mars Mundane Carter Venues Colonizing Mars Really Depressing

Author:Moby

“To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.”

Hard Talent Hard Work Discipline Dramatic Crap

Author:Colin Mochrie

“Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.”

Writing Stills Form Poet Narrative Dramatic Southern

Author:Robert Morgan

“As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.”

Children Beautiful Found Walking Standing Brave Notion Singers Noise Dramatic Swim Solitary Spotlight Small Child Standing There Sink Or Swim

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Careers Pieces Serious Dramatic Phases Profile High Profile

Author:Bill Murray

“It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.”

Happens Boring Dramatic Boring Things

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.”

Liberty Industry Battle Shapes Computer Paid Pursuit Diets Dramatic Software Stakes Nerd Pursuit Of Happiness Coke Keyboards Diet Coke Stock Options Dramatic Life Computer Keyboards

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Fiction Audience Science Fiction Dramatic Devices Melodrama Schmidt

Author:Jack Nicholson

“My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.”

Able School Mother Stuff Acting Class Husband Connected Dramatic Saturday Payment Workshops Typing Acting Classes

Author:Robert De Niro

“Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.”

May America Mountain Prove Happenings Campaigns Significant Barack Dramatic Voters Affinity Gop

Author:Bob Beauprez

“I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.”

Feels Ideas Contemporary Dramatic Devices Relevant

Author:Edward Norton

“After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.”

Roles Hollywood Dramatic Cracks

Book:'Tis Herself: An Autobiography

Source: 'Tis Herself: An Autobiography

“I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.”

People Thinking Writing Art Events Conflict Dramatic One Direction Kernel Juncture

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.”

Trying Bigs Actors Found Serious Scene Dramatic Better Off Lighters

Author:Al Pacino

“The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.”

Security Areas Impact Climate Climate Change Dramatic National Security

Author:Leon Panetta

“A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.”

Ifs Dangerous Lows Wave Mood Dramatic Disorder Highs And Lows Mood Disorders

Author:Jane Pauley

“We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.”

Thinking World Littles Bigs Eye Used Term Millions Huge Dollars Affair Billions Dramatic Protest Demonstration Disobedience Civil Disobedience Twinkling

Author:A. Philip Randolph

“The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.”

Dramatic Anxious

Author:Sally Ride

“Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.”

Two Reality Our Lives Quiet Dramatic Sufficient Decay Explosions Ghastly

Author:Anne Roiphe

“Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”

Writing Children Stories Moving Mother Night House Dark Magic Singing Army Nervous Dramatic Apocalypse Goblin

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.”

Actors Dramatic Not Sure Movie Viewpoints Life Death

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.”

Trying Made Film Painter Dramatic Extensions Free Time

Author:Gus Van Sant

“In real life, events seem much less dramatic.”

Real Seems Events Real Life Dramatic

Book:Anchorwoman

Source: Anchorwoman

“People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.”

People Thinking Fiction Too Much Dramatic Arcs

Author:Will Self

“I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.”

Looks Materials Dramatic Peak Experiences

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.”

Country Sometimes America Beautiful Enjoy Products Advertising Consumers Dramatic Ads Entertaining Other Countries

Author:Simon Sinek

“Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?”

Ifs Heart Doe Ideas Soul Form Tales Dramatic Composition Heart And Soul Conductor

Author:John Philip Sousa

“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.”

World War Ends Leader Destiny Cold Mets Meetings Occasions Dramatic Changing The World Controlled Cold War Historic Summit

Author:Conrad Black

“Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.”

Writing Made Stories Fiction Mark Love Story Dramatic

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.”

Way Action Acting Drama Bottom Dramatic Movie Hierarchy Endeavour Thespians

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.”

Trying Doe Dramatic Interpretation Historian

Author:Oliver Stone

“The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.”

Important Economy Economic Revolution Development Dramatic Asian Renaissance Industrial Revolution Modernization Economic History

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

Kind May Form Speak Criticism Experience Dramatic Logical Coherence

Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.”

People Knows Happens Life Is Decision Treats Trials Dramatic Tribulation Trials And Tribulations

Author:Mary J. Blige

“I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.”

Littles Listening Grew Grew Up Stranger Queens Dramatic Unexpected Throwing

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.”

May War Peace Brain Everyday Dramatic Dramatic Life

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.”

May Country Helping Existence Economic Serious Ought Majors Deserve Consequence Europe Crisis Permanent Dramatic Polish Poland Repercussions Economic Crisis

Author:Lech Walesa

“When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.”

Children Book Stories Hands Losing Adults Absolutes Dramatic Chocolate Factories Favourite Charlie Colourful Losing Myself Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Author:David Walliams

“I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.”

Children Home School Mother Class Watches Creative Tvs Involved Solutions Everyday Theatre Locals Dramatic Coming Home Programmes Workshops Talkative Creative Solutions

Author:Kerry Washington

“I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.”

Men World Littles Real Stories Able Film Company Comedy Wonderful Fortunate Dramatic Maps Pigs Bay Of Pigs

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.”

Thinking Artist Drama Dramatic Gestures Encores

Author:Florence Welch

“I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.”

Stories Song Stuff White Dramatic Zeppelins New Stuff Old Stuff

Author:Amy Winehouse

“Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

Funny Courses Dark Critics Theatre Dramatic Daytime

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.”

Strong Black White Dramatic Black And White Glamorous Confidence And Strength

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.”

Law Teach Blessing Significant Dramatic Subtle Diverse Commandments Obedient Tithing

Author:David A. Bednar

“Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.”

Thinking Giving Writing Heart Littles Reason Feelings Earth Night Stars Five Tree Dare Excited Dramatic Betray Buddy Deserving Good Night Craftsman Trust Your Heart

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.”

Knows World Way Reason Moments Purpose Winning Break Wall Protect Losing Infinite Shining Missions Dramatic Consent Playgrounds Infinite Life

Author:Richard Bach

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

People War Character Stories Force Five Effects Sick Enormous Dramatic Discouraged Confrontation So Sick Slaughterhouse Five Slaughterhouse 5 Slaughter House 5 Slaughter House Five Effects Of War

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

“The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

People World Stories Past Events Dramatic

Book:Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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