“I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Parker let the letter drop to the floor, an act she often criticized in movies for its melodrama.” — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that… — Song Hye-kyo Copy Share Image
With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that… — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true… — Jon Turteltaub Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and… — Peter Horton Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“The three of you are enough to drive a mara mad. 'She can wear my shirt,’" she growled in imitation of Nash."No,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He holds his hands up to keep the Reapers from advancing. I forgot Zack's flair for the melodramatic. ~Exposing ELE” — Courtney Nuckels Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album that would make other people feel the way I felt listening to 'Melodrama.' — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
