Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The quirky little melodrama that unfolded in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 played the same role in the history of the world… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice 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
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
“This is historic. This is generational,’ Dani said. Leo stared at the collapsing rally with awe. Jeff made a strangled noise. ‘I… — Belinda Kelderhouse 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
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
“Producers increasingly insert overblown, hyper-emotional scenes even when the underlying conflict could be portrayed with calm or rational dialogue. The intent is… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk… — Todd Haynes 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
To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“She often felt like she had been cast in a supporting role with the film that was Louise. And there was more… — Kerri Thomson Copy Share Image
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big,… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me… — David Sedaris 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
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be,… — Max Nordau 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
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a… — Tom Baker 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
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
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