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“New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.”

Writing Stories Stage Conflict Dialogue Dramatic Plot Suspects Tied Intrigue Relics Tied Up Dramatic Writing

Book:Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

Source: Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

“The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.”

Writing Opportunity Conflict Threat Complexes Dramatic Resolution Overwhelming Compelling Protagonists

Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.”

People World Quality China Occasions Dramatic Olympics Quality Of Life Spotlight Beijing

Author:Alexander Haig

“I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.”

Roles Dramatic

Author:Owen Wilson

“I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.”

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Author:Casey Kasem

“I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.”

Littles Done Shows Opportunity Comedy Team Productions Dramatic Korea Discs Comedy Shows

Author:Casey Kasem

“Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.”

Home Form Groups Towns Dramatic Shops Small Town Quartets Barbers Barber Shop

Author:Kate Smith

“I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.”

Trying Facts Situation Dramatic

Author:Edward St Aubyn

“I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.”

Dramatic Emphasis

Author:Neil LaBute

“I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.”

People Thinking Knows Persons Comedy Serious Actresses Dramatic

Author:Paget Brewster

“My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.”

Persons Father Dramatic Theatrical

Author:Viva Bianca

“We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.”

World Way Important Whole Tragedy Dramatic Examining Milton Important Work Shelley Wordsworth

Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley

“When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.”

Giving Years Art Courses Couple Giving Up Doctors Dramatic Royal Deaf Academy

Author:Stephanie Beacham

“The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.”

World War Ends Wish Dramatic War Of The Worlds Second World War

Author:Traian Basescu

“I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.”

Feels Has Beens Light Film Comedy Dramatic Satisfying

Author:Ty Burrell

“I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.”

Want Interest Comedy Monsters Dramatic

Author:Eliza Coupe

“Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.”

People Ifs Sometimes Done Film Projects Dramatic You Choose Get Real

Author:Alan Cumming

“I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.”

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Author:Curtis Armstrong

“Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.”

Would Be Pieces Dramatic Wardrobe Capes

Author:Tyson Chandler

“I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.”

Knows Roles Grew Grew Up West Dramatic

Author:Ken Curtis

“I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.”

Fronts Planets Right Now Sitting Historical Dramatic Seats

Author:James Daly

“I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.”

I Can Play Able Film Cold Hot Dramatic Sugar Salt Over The Top

Author:Jean Dujardin

“I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.”

Done Roles My Favorite Genre Dramatic

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.”

Men Ideas Seems Situation He Man Dramatic Pits Dramatic Situations

Author:Judy Davis

“I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.”

Loud Dramatic Over The Top

Author:Carmen Electra

“I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.”

People Want Looks Littles Different Bigs Light Actors Let Me Comedian Dramatic Mature Want Something Entertainers

Author:Cedric the Entertainer

“I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.”

Knows Faces Guy Roles Pops Dramatic Funny Guy

Author:Chris Elliott

“We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.”

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Author:Ken Follett

“I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.”

Ifs Thinking Way Play Roles Comedy Listening Drama Approach Instinct Commit Dramatic

Author:Will Ferrell

“After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.”

Years Challenges Comedy Dramatic

Author:Marla Gibbs

“Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.”

Way Difficult Comedy Drama Performances Tricks Dramatic Layers Cleaners

Author:Grant Bowler

“Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.”

Actors Comedy Dramatic Comedic

Author:Noah Emmerich

“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”

Situation Dramatic Sci Fi Dramatic Situations

Author:Jane Fonda

“I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.”

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Author:Peter Maxwell Davies

“A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.”

Done Beautiful Certain Three Amount Balance Debt Dramatic Printing Austerity Restructuring

Author:Ray Dalio

“The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.”

Men Persons Matter States Character Belief Interesting Land Stuck Dramatic Tension Desperate Most Interesting Unbelief Interesting Characters

Author:Richard Dooling

“To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.”

Ideas Together Dramatic

Author:Lukas Foss

“How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Hands Next Failing Scripts Dramatic

Author:Josh Gad

“Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.”

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Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!”

Ifs Character Sound Fiction Streets Modern Driving Dramatic Get Away

Author:Terry Goodkind

“I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.”

Kind Next Comedy Drama One Day Projects Dramatic Next Day

Author:Topher Grace

“Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.”

Ifs Actors Drama Right Now Dramatic

Author:Ethan Hawke

“There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.”

Needs Has Beens Country School House White Steps Growing Congress Dramatic Halls White House Consensus Secondary School

Author:Ruben Hinojosa

“True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.”

Knows Hard Problem Pieces Expression Performing Dramatic Rely Opera Vocabulary Guidelines

Author:Zola Jesus

“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”

Knows Facts Emotional Needed Civilization Affair Tolerance Dramatic Only Love Rebuilding Public Affairs

Author:E. M. Forster

“I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.”

Thinking Men Littles Has Beens Country Wife My Wife Dramatic

Author:Andrew Lincoln

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