All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like,… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
How did the hearing go?” she asked. “We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.” “The court gave the Sheeriles… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls -… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs.… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I've done a fair bit of work in the dramatic space researching extremism and how it operates and it gets inside your… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big… — David Warner Copy Share Image
It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
