Dramatic Quotes - Page 29

• I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

  Natalia Kills

  Eye, Lips

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• It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Opponents, Conviction

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.206, Penguin

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• If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

  Milton Friedman

  Compassion, Punishment, Drug

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• If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.

  Vaclav Havel

  Laughter, Faces, Problem

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• Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Discovery, Space

  "Einstein, the first spin doctor" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Interesting, Important, Events

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• New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

  Patrice Pavis

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

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• I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Trying, Facts, Situation

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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  Paget Brewster

  Thinking, People, Actresses

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• My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

  Viva Bianca

  Father, Theatrical, Persons

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• When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Art, Giving Up, Couple

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• The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

  Traian Basescu

  War, Wish, World

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• I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

  Ty Burrell

  Light, Comedy, Film

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

  Tyson Chandler

  Capes, Would Be, Pieces

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• I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

  Jean Dujardin

  Play, Hot, Sugar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

  Jeff Daniels

  Roles, Done, My Favorite

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• I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

  Carmen Electra

  Loud, Over The Top

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• I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.

  Cedric the Entertainer

  Light, Want Something, People

  "Comedian-actor Cedric the Entertainer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 4, 2011.

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• I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

  Chris Elliott

  Guy, Roles, Faces

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• After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

  Marla Gibbs

  Years, Challenges, Comedy

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• Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

  Grant Bowler

  Drama, Layers, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

  Noah Emmerich

  Actors, Comedy, Comedic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Thinking, Mind, Plot

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• A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.

  Ray Dalio

  Beautiful, Balance, Three

  "RAY DALIO: America Is Executing A 'Beautiful Deleveraging'" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. May 19, 2012.

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• The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

  Richard Dooling

  Character, Men, Land

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