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“I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.”

Persons Light Drama Dramatic

Author:Jodie Foster

“I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.”

Art Careers New York London Dramatic Academy

Author:David Naughton

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.”

Ifs Knows Want Actors Acting Doubt Comedy Dramatic

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'”

Used Watches Comedy Dramatic Forrest Gump

Author:Evan Peters

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

Thinking Persons Hard Reason Comedy Seeing Serious Drama Harder Silly Dramatic Crave Being Silly

Author:Evan Peters

“To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.”

Writing Book Science Subjects Tasks Artistic Novelists Attractive Dramatic Textbooks

Author:Max Born

“Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.”

People Thinking Doe I Can Ideas Film Speak Diversity Projects Okay Hollywood Boxes Range Dramatic

Author:Lou Diamond Phillips

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Two Action Film Used Three Hours Challenges Novel Four Cutting Pages Hundred Features Dramatic Adapting

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.”

Children Use Pay Watches My Family Performances Dramatic Savvy

Author:Margot Robbie

“I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

People Thinking I Can Actors Can Do Curious Dramatic

Author:Ben Stiller

“The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.”

Way Running Dramatic Indonesia Thailand Thai Imf

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.”

Ifs Character Dramatic Steers

Author:Tate Taylor

“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”

World Should Firsts America Effort Capacity Threat Focused Nuclear Priorities Dramatic Iran Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.”

Giving Writing Long Play Actors Chance Pieces Long Time Give Me Comic Dramatic Facets

Author:Linda Lavin

“I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.”

Different Film Next Serious Aspect Scripts Excited Producers Genre Dramatic Twilight

Author:Taylor Lautner

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Done Stuff Acting Comedy Students Theater Instinct Enjoyed Dramatic

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.”

Film Keys Lows Dramatic Low Key

Author:James Mangold

“It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.”

Kind Has Beens Would Be Today Stars Pieces Impossible Tough Dramatic Verdict Newman

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.”

People Two Differences Situation Dramatic Complaints Dramatic Situations

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.”

Giving Should Looks Voice Challenges Honesty Doctors Accounts Profound Profession Medical Psychological Dramatic Adulthood Should I Insiders Medical Profession

Author:Akhil Sharma

“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”

“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.”

People Doe Play Stories Social Music Doubt Masters Skills Musician Instruments Jazz African American Dramatic Significance Jazz Music Descent Jazz Musician African Music

Author:Max Roach

“If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”

Ifs Men Way Two Fall Wish Social Pressure Dramatic Empires Roman Empire Slippery Slopes Slippery Slope Social Pressure

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.”

“A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.”

Should Shows Dramatic Screenwriting

Author:Nunnally Johnson

“I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.”

People Thinking Stuff Interest Theater Dramatic

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.”

Wells Comedy Dramatic

Author:Don Most

“I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.”

Ifs Reality Reading Vision Comedy Drama Directors Dramatic Tone Performers

Author:Amy Seimetz

“I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.”

Desire Enjoy Risk Huge Impact Majority Entrepreneur Spending Enthusiasm Dramatic My Time Willingness Dedication

Author:Maynard Webb

“Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.”

Firsts Character Film Keys Gay Musical Casts Pops British Managers Fixed Dramatic Components Cliffs Harvey Bongos

Author:Peter York

“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.”

Want Important Stories Behinds News Music Is Dramatic Theme Scare

Author:Aaron McGruder

“Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.”

People Ifs Made Enough Stories Shows Reality Interesting Watches Amount Elements Dramatic Realistic

Author:Michael Loceff

“Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.”

People Want Fun Stuff Laughing Theater Heavy Having Fun Dramatic Making People Laugh Comedic Just Want To Have Fun

Author:Megan Hilty

“I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.”

Ends Pieces Percent Intense Dramatic Pilots Hbo

Author:Donal Logue

“It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"”

Thinking Actors Water Scripts Dramatic

Author:Jamie Bell

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

Art Form Actors Emotion Emotional Art Is Abuse Dramatic Masturbation Cathartic Acting From Actors

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.”

Spirituality Results Practice Aim Dramatic Ritual

Author:Stephanie Mills

“To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”

People Seems Criticism Dramatic Bubbles Tattoo Soap Soap Bubbles

Book:Broadway in review

Source: Broadway in review

“Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.”

People Thinking Writing Has Beens Reason Literature Opinion Taken Like Me Dramatic Public Opinion Printed Wrong Reasons Dramatic Change

Author:Anthony Holden

“I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.”

Knows Years Moments Film Artist Saws Drama Dramatic Abstract

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!”

Years Seems Care Fun Gains Weight Clean Caring Dramatic Sober

Author:Courtney Love

“Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.”

Bigs Eye Beautiful Animal Levels Judging Approach Plant Dramatic Parks Theme Entertaining Plants And Animals Theme Parks

Author:Gary Larson

“I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.”

I Can Can Do Sleep Roles Forever Intense Dramatic Thankfulness Being Thankful

Author:Andie MacDowell

“The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.”

Should Used Numbers Influence Keys Messages Evidence Increase Communicate Dramatic Voters Telephones Email Collecting Blogging

Author:Adam Rickitt

“Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.”

“Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.”

World Way Disease Dramatic New World Voyages Sailor Columbus Severity Pox

Author:Peter Lewis Allen

“I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'”

Way Want Feels Littles Bits Sound Missing Band Little Bit Soldier Dramatic Want Me Punk You Want Me Snl Missing Something Do You Want Me

Author:Fred Armisen

“Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

Inspirational Long Death Right Now Sorry Dramatic Someday Making Changes Best Job Change Agent Motivational Job Connecting The Dots Stanford University Success Mantra Graduation Commencement Crazy Inspirational Old Job

Author:Steve Jobs

“It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.”

Happens Our Lives Computer Obvious Dramatic

Author:Kate Bush

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