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“I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.”

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Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.”

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Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.”

Wells Dramatic Auditions Comedic

Author:Leslie Mann

“For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.”

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Author:Kate Burton

“Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.”

Firsts Age Action Comedy Concepts Scripts Ice Dramatic Foxes Mandates Ice Age

Author:Chris Wedge

“English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.”

Should Mind Values Courses Literature Reader Drama Standards Inevitable Dramatic Poetic

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.”

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.”

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Author:Mel Torme

“If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.”

Ifs Kind Dream Struggle Impossible Dramatic Incentives Impossible Dream

Author:Gary Numan

“Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.”

Stories Problem Seems Happens Company Medicine Various Revolutionary Dramatic Phases Hype Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Companies

Author:Mort Kondracke

“Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.”

Ends Moments Spiritual Individual Results Silence Finals Dramatic Reaching Threshold End Results Don Juan

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.”

Ifs Love Running Age Common Rocks Jazz Heavy Dramatic Metals Thread Fusion Heavy Metal Rockers Precursor Common Threads

Author:Edgar Winter

“I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.”

Love Age Film Hate Opinion Cry Terrible Singing And Love I Hate Dancing Billions Dramatic Love Life Garbage Bollywood Singing Dancing

Author:Russell Peters

“He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He was in the absolute, end stage - they have that wing in the hospital where they have given up on you. You can smoke pot and do anything you want. They had given up on him.”

Want Ends Reason Given Gone Stage Absolutes Medicine Wings Aids Recovery Smoke Dramatic Hospitals Pot Given Up

Author:Richard M. Schulze

“If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.”

“We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.”

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Author:Lanford Wilson

“It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.”

Giving Hard Happens Lying Shapes Crafts Dramatic Distortion Alterations Dramatic Life

Author:James Toback

“However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.”

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Author:Edward Zwick

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.”

People Running Perfect Events Creatures Bird Capacity Seasons Weather Dramatic Grandmother Granite

Author:Tove Jansson

“While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.”

Way Moving Lord Feet Guides Dramatic Subtle Progression Footsteps

Author:Marion G. Romney

“The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.”

Stories Bigs Influence Structure Handle Dramatic Transformed Nashville Overlapping

Author:Tony Kushner

“I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.”

Stories Love Story Dramatic Phenomenon

Author:Ang Lee

“Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.”

“Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.”

Lips Dramatic Underestimate Never Underestimate

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Source: The New Beauty Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to a Flawless Face

“Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.”

Government Lasts Party Half Saws Greater Europe Crisis Socialism Dramatic Communist Collapse Eastern Communist Party Eastern Europe

Author:Joe Slovo

“Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.”

“Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of the heart. We all have access to creativity. At times, we summon it to use in our work and daily livesit can arrive in a dreamor it may result from a long struggleit can appear as a sudden, dramatic insightOne thing is certain — Creativity is ever present. It is a force to be enjoyed or endured but above all celebrated. Creativity is free, alive and spontaneous.”

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Author:F. David Peat

“In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.”

People Knows Sides Roles Dramatic

Author:Bow Wow

“Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.”

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Author:Nick Brandt

“Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.”

Whole Shows Kids Saws Comedy Huge Dramatic Realms

Author:Debby Ryan

“I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.”

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Author:Christopher Hampton

“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.”

Important Sometimes Hands Eye Jobs Leaving Affair Performing Dramatic Magician Unnoticed Important Jobs Foreign Affairs

Author:David K. Shipler

“What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.”

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Author:Ray Ozzie

“There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.”

Giving Faces Romance Emotion Conflict Certainty Dramatic Sentiments Impermanence Permanence Flux Changing Everything

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.”

Giving Play Character Actors Quality Comedian Dramatic Adore Melissa

Author:Lisa Schwarzbaum

“Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.”

May Long Helping Suffering Politics Mistake Democracy Middle One Day Iraq East Tyranny Dramatic Torture Middle East Breakthrough Turning Points Long Suffering

Author:Michael Novak

“There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.”

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Author:Michael A. Ledeen

“The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)”

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Author:Steven Levy

“I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.”

Eye Lips Dramatic

Author:Natalia Kills

“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.”

Government Dramatic Bad Government Dramatic Life

Author:Oscar Wilde

“True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.”

May Character Greatness Drama Dignity Tragedy Defined Dramatic Principal

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.”

Doe Stills Philosophy America Moving Found Energy Force Felt Land Stage Movement Involved Concern Dramatic Vitality Impressionism

Author:Martha Graham

“If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.”

Ifs Trying Done Compassion Drug Harm Punishment Atmosphere Dramatic Treatment Users Devoted Reduction Fractions Prohibition Usage Rehabilitation Drug Prohibition

Author:Milton Friedman

“Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.”

Today Actors Dramatic Plot

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.”

Ifs Problem Faces Laughter Increase Relation Dramatic Statues Seriousness

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.”

Stars Black Space Effects Fields Objects Changed Discovery Holes Intense Dramatic Time And Space Things Change Black Hole Neutrons

Author:Paul Davies

“A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.”

Important Shows Interesting Events News Granted Dramatic Mundane Newsworthy Gradual Change

Author:Robert D. Kaplan

“You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.”

Persons Two Pieces Television Program Treats Dramatic Portions Comedic

Author:Nathan Fillion

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