Dramatic Quotes

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Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. Iâ€™ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine du Plessix Gray
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss… — Vivica Fox
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story… — David Maraniss
Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone elseâ€™s romance? Or to… — Kate Klise
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty… — Stefan Petrucha
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama — Edward Bond
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for… — Maria Jeritza
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible. — Jay Roach
[A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth....More importantly , it is suffocating… — Tom J. Donohue
A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences. — George Weigel
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit… — Carl Jung
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular… — Pal Benko
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play… — Ridley Scott
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. — Shelley Berman
I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or… — Casey Kasem
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really… — Pete Townshend
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may… — David Mamet
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis

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