Dramatic Quotes - Page 22

• My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

  Meredith Brooks

  Wind, Gone, Wizards

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• Sometimes God does something dramatic to get our attention. That's what happened to me in 1975. My family and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of a borrowed cabin in the Colorado Rockies. I was stretched out on a lounge chair in the midday warmth, praying and thinking. I was considering how we Christians - not just the mission I was part of, but all of us - could turn the world around for Jesus.

  Loren Cunningham

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.

  Erwin McManus

  Kissing, Irrelevance, Church

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.23, David C Cook

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• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Childhood, Theatre

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wall, Suffering, Age

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• I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness. I've always said I hold him responsible for that.

  Jack Layton

  Country, Believe, Affordable Housing

  "Layton Slams Martin Over Deaths of Homeless". www.theglobeandmail.com. May 27, 2004.

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• When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Drama, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

  Edwin Land

  Messages, Persuasive, Being True

  "Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy" by Richard L. Garwin, November 9, 1991.

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• A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  America, Mind, Mosaics

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Two, Kitchen, Battle

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

  Channing Tatum

  Thinking, Careers, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.

  Woody Allen

  Fighting, Want, Buying

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

  Kurt Sutter

  Wife, Cartoon, Sitcom

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• The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Drama, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.430

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• I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Teaching, Mold

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.

  David Attenborough

  Lonely, Long, People

  "Life in the Freezer". Documentary, www.imdb.com. (1993 - ).

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• I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

  Seth Rogen

  Life Is Like, Way, Realistic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• There is no such thing as a Flower Police, so please feel free to experiment. Or stick with one type of flower; for instance, do bunches of white tulips or a mix of flowers that are all yellow in color. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it can't be dramatic!

  Clinton Smith

  Flower, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.

  Sara Quin

  Long, Get Real

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• We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Fighting, Car, Baths

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

  Russell Crowe

  Art, School, Australia

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• When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

  Al Pacino

  Trying, Actors, Serious

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• The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

  Leon Panetta

  Impact, Climate, National Security

  "Sickly Job Growth Sets Up Unhappy Choice for Obama" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. May 04, 2012.

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• A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

  Jane Pauley

  Wave, Mood, Lows

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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• God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Character, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

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