Dram Quotes

1. "The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event."
Author: Aaron Siskind

2. "I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me."
Author: Amy Ryan

3. "I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure."
Author: Anne Carson

4. "'Cause movies are human drama, that's it."
Author: Antoine Fuqua

5. "I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant."
Author: Bronagh Gallagher

6. "At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

7. "All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals."
Author: Craig Ferguson

8. "But what? But it was just so much easier to deal with the old pain by ignoring it? Forgetting it? Andy's presence meant having to actively work at forgiving him, and that was hard. Forgetting was much easier than forgiving--forgiving was an on-going process that had to continue past the dramatic declarations of apology and absolution."
Author: Diana Killian

9. "If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too."
Author: Doug Davidson

10. "Cît despre umilintele proprii, oricînd le vei putea idealiza ori ascunde,luand un aer de stîrpitura distinsa, continuînd sa fii, cu demnitate, ultimul om. Politetea ? rutina a nenorocirii, prerogativa a celor care, nascuti fara speranta, au început-o cu sfîrsitul! Sa te stii dintr-o samînta rea, ce n-a dat rod niciodata, e o amaraciune în care intra un dram de mîngîiere, ba chiar de voluptate."
Author: Emil Cioran

11. "Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood - all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you."
Author: Emil Cioran

12. "There I go again. I want. I don't want. If I could love You, I could love Henry. God was made man. He was Henry with his astigmatism, Richard with his spots, not only Maurice. If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry? But I'd turn from the leper if he were here, I suppose, as I shut myself away from Henry. I want the dramatic always. I imagine I'm ready for the pain of your nails... Dear God, I'm no use. I'm still the same bitch and fake. Clear me out of the way."
Author: Graham Greene

13. "Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. (...) Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies."
Author: Harper Lee

14. "If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan."
Author: Heather Demetrios

15. "Oh dear. I do believe this is self-pity. I am imagining myself dramatically dead, tragically taken from you and even more lamentably forgotten. What dreadful clichés war and social strife reduces us to, and how powerful the effect must be, if even I am so infected. I think I must pull myself together."
Author: Iain Banks

16. "Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him."
Author: Jamie Campbell Bower

17. "Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more."
Author: Jeannette Walls

18. "I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it."
Author: Jeff Dunham

19. "People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me."
Author: Jennifer Jason Leigh

20. "Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together."
Author: Joe Manganiello

21. "The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers."
Author: John Lanchester

22. "The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation."
Author: Jonathan Sacks

23. "It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played."
Author: June Allyson

24. "Mia bows dramatically. "Welcome, kind Sir. Princess Mia has been awaiting your presence."
Author: K.A. Tucker

25. "To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions."
Author: Katharine Anthony

26. "Nina made a dramatic sigh. "She won't give me one, either," she lamented,"
Author: Kim Harrison

27. "Jay sat down across from Chelsea and took both of her hands in his. The oversized lunchroom was buzzing with activity, and he practically had to yell to be heard."Chelsea, for the love of everything good and holy, please ... please stop ruining my friend."Violet bit her lip to stop from laughing at the two of them. She knew what he was talking about before he even explained. It was the new facial hair.Chelsea jerked her hands out of his. "Oh, relax, drama queen. He's not broken. Besides, I'm gonna fix him this weekend."Jay seemed relieved."
Author: Kimberly Derting

28. "I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama."
Author: Lorna Luft

29. "As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life."
Author: Lysette Anthony

30. "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 nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands."
Author: Maria Jeritza

31. "I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with."
Author: Martin McDonagh

32. "There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists."So God just leaves?"No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."But the sparrow still falls."
Author: Mary Doria Russell

33. "When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that."
Author: Michelle Forbes

34. "In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don't have to say what we want. They are going to do what we want because they know us so well. If they don't do what we want, what we assume they should do, we feel hurt and think, "How could you do that? You should know." Again, we make the assumption that the other person knows what we want. A whole drama is created because we make this assumption and then put more assumptions ontop of it."
Author: Miguel Ruiz

35. "Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film."
Author: Mike Figgis

36. "However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically."
Author: Nobuo Uematsu

37. "Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person."
Author: Oksana Baiul

38. "In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."
Author: Peter Mandelson

39. "But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology."
Author: Rachel Dratch

40. "It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."
Author: Richard P. Feynman

41. "It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life."
Author: Richard Wright

42. "I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama."
Author: Robin Benway

43. "The idea was to anger the drama kids, not hurt any of them. I'm not a deer hunter. I decided to prey on their most basic, cherished fear. "This play sucks! No one likes it. Not even the junior high bloggers will review this lame excuse for a Moliere," I yelled, and chucked tomatillos at the stager, over, under, and past the ducking, traumatized performers in French aristocrat costumes."
Author: Sarah Skilton

44. "I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers."
Author: Sigourney Weaver

45. "The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence."
Author: Stanley Crouch

46. "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist"
Author: Timothy Ferriss

47. "Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge."
Author: Tommy Hilfiger

48. "Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only in the sacred books whose power everybody acknowledges, but by every movement of imagination in song or story or drama that height of intensity and sincerity has made literature at all. Literature must take the responsibility of its power, and keep all its freedom: it must be like the spirit and like the wind that blows where it listeth; it must claim its right to pierce through every crevice of human nature, and to descrive the relation of the soul and the heart to the facts of life and of law, and to describe that relation as it is, not as we would have it be..."
Author: W.B. Yeats

49. "In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere."
Author: William Dean Howells

50. "I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to."
Author: William Moseley

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