Dramatic Quotes - Page 5

• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Successful

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• Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Laughing, Waste

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• I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

  Jon Heder

  Roles, Knows

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• After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Media, Order

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

  Kurt Busch

  Sharks, Space, Swim

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• History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Design, Association, Federal Reserve

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• I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Mean, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Joy, World, Cradle

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1912). “Interviews”

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• I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

  David Nevins

  Real, Lying, Silly

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• We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Religious, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thoughtful, Important, Citizens

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• I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Trying, Looks, Stories

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Drama, Reality

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• It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Voice, Giving, Sound

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• I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.

  Mike Leigh

  Character, Needs, Raw Materials

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Arguing, Argument

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• Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

  Oscar Wilde

  Voice, Gestures, Littles

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• The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Technology, Roots

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• Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Real, Skills, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Doe, Prejudice

  George Jean Nathan (1919). “Comedians All”

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• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  Rachael Harris

  Stuff, Scripts, Comedy

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2012.

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• The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Class, Progress, History Of Life

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.

  Guido Palau

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

  Mark Boal

  Mean, Trying, Events

  Source: deadline.com

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