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• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt
• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice
• On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of… — Bobby Jones
• Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra
• I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in… — Parker Posey
• I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway… — Floyd Dell
• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee
• In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet
• All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. — Baz Luhrmann
• So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk
• Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The… — Leslie Poles Hartley
• Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego. — Deepak Chopra

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