Dramatic Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  John Ritter

  Gay, Two, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

  Jasika Nicole

  Drama, Moving, Actors

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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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• The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

  Nick Kroll

  Interesting, Able, Comedy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.

  Ram Swarup

  Men, Brotherhood, Vision

  "Ramakrishna Mission" by Ram Swarup, (p.13), 1986.

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• I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

  Ryan Guzman

  Crazy, Different, Hardy

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

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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.

  Maeve Binchy

  Country, Book, Hero

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• For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a dramatic change for our country - which has been suffering more than any other from the consequences of drug-trafficking.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Drug, Suffering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.

  Wayne White

  People, Cameras, Hollywood

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• On social media and [in person] I hear stories of how a song like "Home" helps. Whether it's a guy overseas coping with missing his family or something deeper and terribly dramatic. Somebody once told me that ["Home"] is the song they listen to when they go to the cemetery to visit their child that passed away. It gives them hope. At the end of the day, that's all what I want to offer people.

  Michael Buble

  Song, Children, Home

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

  Luke Grimes

  Art, Done, Theater

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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