Dramatic Quotes - Page 37

• I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Government, Dancing, Singing

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• I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Art, School, Play

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

  Leslie Mann

  Auditions, Comedic, Wells

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

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• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  Edgar Winter

  Love, Running, Common Threads

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• He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He was in the absolute, end stage - they have that wing in the hospital where they have given up on you. You can smoke pot and do anything you want. They had given up on him.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Recovery, Wings, Medicine

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• If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.

  Freddie Stroma

  Smart, Drama, Opportunity

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

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• We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Prayer

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

  Edward Zwick

  Philosophical, Stories, Agendas

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• Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Grandmother, Weather

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• While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.

  Marion G. Romney

  Moving, Feet, Way

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• The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

  Tony Kushner

  Nashville, Stories, Influence

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• I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

  Ang Lee

  Stories, Love Story, Phenomenon

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• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

  Joe Slovo

  Party, Government, Europe

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• Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.

  Kenny Smith

  Distance, Philosophy, Character

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• Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of the heart. We all have access to creativity. At times, we summon it to use in our work and daily livesit can arrive in a dreamor it may result from a long struggleit can appear as a sudden, dramatic insightOne thing is certain — Creativity is ever present. It is a force to be enjoyed or endured but above all celebrated. Creativity is free, alive and spontaneous.

  F. David Peat

  Stars, Heart, Creativity

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• In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Civilization, Choices, Way

  "How will everything change under climate change?" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2015.

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• I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

  Bow Wow

  People, Roles, Sides

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• Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.

  Nick Brandt

  Photography, Art, Drama

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• Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

  Debby Ryan

  Kids, Saws, Comedy

  "Debby Ryan Interview: ‘Suite Life’ Star Talks New Show, Indie Movies & Growing Up Disney". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

  Christopher Hampton

  Thinking, Kind, Film

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Jobs, Eye, Hands

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• What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.

  Ray Ozzie

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Giving, Romance, Faces

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• Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Character, Play, Giving

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