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“You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.”

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Author:Maeve Binchy

“Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.”

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Author:David Mamet

“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”

Men Self Desire Consciousness Honest Painting Ego Degrees Shadow Paint Dramatic Artificial Introducing Portraits Highlights Self Consciousness Self Portrait

Author:W. H. Auden

“To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.”

“The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.”

Art Stories Hands Answers Novel Effects Reader Shapes Longing Patterns Wit Dramatic Significance Paradox Short Story Primitive Craving

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.”

Clear Patient Improvement Saving Posts Dramatic Organs Spectacular Demonstration Kidneys Life Saving

Author:Joseph Murray

“There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.”

Certain Values Ignorance Genuine Dramatic Poetic Dazed

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.”

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Author:Jonas Mekas

“When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.”

Ifs Wanted Young Written Tragedy Dramatic If I Could Tennessee

Author:Woody Allen

“I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.”

Feels I Can Wanted Can Do Comedy Comfortable Dramatic Facility I Can Do It

Author:Woody Allen

“If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Suffering Improvement Helping Others Dramatic

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.”

Thinking Way Two Light Dark Levels Emotional Photography Happenings Shadow Impact Photograph Dramatic Reach Out Composition Light And Dark Framing Light And Shadow

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.”

Should Kind Littles Stories Dramatic Instruction Vehicle Amusement

Book:Clarissa: Preface

Source: Clarissa: Preface

“Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.”

Want Littles Has Beens Lasts Terrible Drama Lows Ordinary Breaths Dramatic High Points Low Points Dramatic Life

Author:Dominick Dunne

“My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.”

Two Stuff Influence Rocks Dramatic Songwriting Mercury Glam Glam Rock

Author:Brandi Carlile

“The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.”

War Facts Film Range Dramatic

Author:Mark Boal

“Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.”

Light Difficult Speed Faster Dramatic Time Travel Implications Speed Of Light

Author:Lisa Randall

“What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.”

People Knows Wells Important Soul Character Stories Interesting Fit Findings Dramatic Entertainers Captivating

Author:Mary Stuart Masterson

“I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.”

Thinking Doe I Can Play My Own Streets Events Newspapers Witness Dramatic Internals Coincidence My Own Life

Author:Athol Fugard

“States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.”

People Thinking Way States Events Awful Dramatic Conventional Status Quo Way Of Thinking Lax

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.”

“I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.”

Thinking Fiction Poet Dramatic Theatrical Fiction Writers

Author:Francine Prose

“The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into the center of grand events. Meticulously-researched, this engrossing novel offers a fresh portrait of a queen who has too often been portrayed as a villain. Bravo Mr. Gortner!”

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Author:Sandra Gulland

“My biggest pet peeve is when a girl says, "I'm not into drama." Why are you even mentioning it?! That's dramatic in itself!”

Girl Drama Dramatic Pet Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Chris D'Elia

“I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.”

Thinking Want Looks Art Film Situation Industry Reflection Tasks Aim Entertainment Artistic Dramatic Affected Entertainment Industry

Author:Michael Haneke

“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.”

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Author:Khaled Hosseini

“When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I bail myself out with a joke. But it's like trying to do movies where there's a dramatic undertone.”

People Trying Moments Shows Jokes Dramatic Premises Bail Booing

Author:Chris Rock

“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...

“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

“Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”

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Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.”

World Years Looks Creative Hero Achievement Shadow Likes Preparation Accomplishment Dramatic Bent Great Accomplishment

Author:Stefan Zweig

“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”

Humans Character Individual Human Beings Effects Human Nature Drama Degrees Disappear Dramatic Individualism Detrimental

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.”

Action Church Obvious Significant Dramatic Secular Legislation Church History

Author:Carter Heyward

“Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”

Said School Actors Acting Sadness Coaches Dramatic Melancholy Drs

Author:Donald Freed

“An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”

Purpose Special Involved Standards Rate Faithful Dramatic Relative Quotations Evaluation Indirect Intentionality

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.”

Ifs Seems Views Common Existence Claims Metaphor Point Of View Make Sense Dramatic Plot Paradox Betray Dominant Relativism

Book:Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

Source: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

“since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Would Be Comedy Pieces Imagine Plans Fashion Bears Theater Court Devotion Welcome Dramatic Imagine That Piety

Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

“I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small.”

Knows Way Needs Looks Long Said Facts Problem Bigs Together Felt Talking Watches Football Drink Dramatic Subtle Get Together Minutiae Long Friendship

Author:Josh Lucas

“It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.”

People Thinking Play Spirit Desire Games Interesting Involved Degrees Ambition Dramatic Rough Competitive Spirit

Author:Beau Willimon

“I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.”

Novel Magazines Dramatic

Author:Maud Welzen

“There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.”

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Author:Wallis Simpson

“One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.”

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Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.”

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Author:Frank Robinson

“Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.”

Dramatic Bitterness

Book:The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.”

Kind Religion Culture Expression Dramatic Gestures Primitive Symbolic Begets Superstitious

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.”

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Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.”

School Mystery Conditions Educational Improvement Dramatic

Book:Results: the key to continuous school improvement

Source: Results: the key to continuous school improvement

“Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.”

People Knows Two Actors Gay Including Productions Versions Dramatic Accomplished Apartment Landlord

Author:John Ritter