Dramatic Quotes

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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Gordon Allport
Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's… — Roger Federer
I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic… — Andrew Sarris
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic. — Bat for Lashes
I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slimeâ€”oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping… — Diana Wynne Jones
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling… — Walter Jon Williams
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. — Oliver Stone
As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo… — Jessye Norman
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,… — William A. Niskanen
My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost… — Joey Lauren Adams
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. — Dale Carnegie
The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss… — George Sanders
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Levy
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the… — Russell Baker
Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as… — John Landgraf
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens,… — William J. Clinton
The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply… — Stanley Kubrick
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to… — Walter Pater

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