On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of… — Bobby Jones 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
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
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The… — L.P. Hartley 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
“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
“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
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
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
Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around… — Kenneth Lonergan 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
“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure… — Jonathan Shay 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
Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the… — Larry King 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
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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