Dramatic Quotes - Page 12

• The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

  Louis Garrel

  Children, Couple, Separation

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• All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

  Adhir Kalyan

  Inspiration, Character, Years

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• When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

  Bellamy Young

  Stars, Fun, Guests

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

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• I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

  Spencer Boldman

  Actors, Stuff, Excited

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• In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

  William Shenstone

  Epic, Opportunity, Garden

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.86

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• Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Men, Insincerity

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.263, e-artnow

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• Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

  Diane Ackerman

  Journey, Risk, Venture

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.132, Vintage

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.6, Vintage

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• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

  Mary McCarthy

  Laughter, Tears, Relief

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

  Doc Brown

  Loneliness, Roles, Elements

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Men, Ideas, Guy

  Interview with Al Norton, 411mania.com. April 23, 2013.

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• The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

  Ricky Gervais

  Laughing, Life Is Like, World

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• The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Drama, Play, Tragedy

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• Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Odds, Giving

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.131, Vintage

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• A groundbreaking, fast-paced, action-oriented new training program for dealing with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Self-Coaching is a dramatic and fresh departure from traditional therapeutic approaches and a motivational training program for reclaiming life by breaking the habits that feed these problems.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Self, Anxiety, Coaching

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• In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Art, Play, Issues

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• I might play a lot of dramatic roles, but I'm really sort of silly.

  Leighton Meester

  Silly, Play, Roles

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Aug 11, 2012

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• I kind of play like a guy. I don't hold grudges. I don't get dramatic with things. If somebody slide tackles me in training and we leave the field, I'm still talking to them. I think that there's very few of us out there that can just take confrontation, and if you've got an issue with something, you can go to that person and say it.

  Carli Lloyd

  Thinking, Talking, Play

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Years, Smoking, One Day

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• just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

  Judith Crist

  Men, Lasts, Violence

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like Madea, and Night, Mother, and Sam Shepard, and all that kind of stuff. Thats what I really wanted to do.

  Rachael Harris

  Mother, New York, Night

  "Rachael Harris: Divorce Experience Helped Her Nab ‘Natural Selection’ Role". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywood.com.

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• I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Actors, Ratios

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• I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

  Kimberly Elise

  Sexy, Elise, Glad

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