Dramatic Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.

  Colin Callender

  Fall, Thinking, Creating

  Source: deadline.com

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• People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Light, Giving

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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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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• 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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• When people are out of their comfort zone, it’s more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That’s the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it.

  Conor McPherson

  Moving, Fighting, People

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).

  E.J. Bonilla

  Opportunity, Giving, Focus

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

  Jane Levy

  Self, People, Safe

  Source: collider.com

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• There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then there are comedy people that go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do drama." I want to try to do both.

  Colin Hanks

  Drama, People, Trying

  "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Different, Way, Not Sure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.

  Mike Leigh

  Nice, Moving, Character

  "Mike Leigh, Unscripted". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2014.

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• For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.

  Mark Weiser

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.

  Neil Burger

  Integrity, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Tired, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

  Allen Wier

  Memories, Remember, Tense

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• The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

  Kevin Nealon

  Weed, Play, Good Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent - a government founded on Christian principles...you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Government, Land

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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 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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• 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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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

  Jenny Holzer

  Want, Be Kind, Hard

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Men, Years

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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