Dramatic Quotes

• Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong Women, Destiny, Names

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• Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Movie, Drama, Book

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• Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

  Norah Jones

  Fun, Distance, Thinking

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• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Art, Laughter

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

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• 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.

  Neil LaBute

  Emphasis

  "A Kinder, Gentler Neil LaBute? Getting Romantic With 'Possession'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2002.

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• In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Events, Seems

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Art, Thinking, Scare

  "An Interview with She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward". BlackBook Interview, bbook.com. March 5, 2010.

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• And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

  Thomas Keneally

  Church, Literature, World

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• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Body, Bass

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• I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

  Hilary Duff

  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Beautiful, Rocks, California

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• Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Cost, Guilty

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fun, Passion, Long

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Jul 02, 2013

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• At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

  George S. Kaufman

  Rehearsal, Absent

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

  Colin Mochrie

  Hard Work, Discipline, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, Southern, Narrative

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• 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.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Careers, Pieces

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

  Maureen O'Hara

  Roles, Hollywood, Cracks

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

  Sally Ride

  Anxious

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• 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.

  Oliver Stone

  Trying, Doe, Interpretation

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

  Allen Tate

  Criticism, Experience, May

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Way, Fields, Ambiguous

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Passionate, France, Performances

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• I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

  Susan Sullivan

  Unique, Thinking, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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