Friedrich von Schiller - Quotes

 Every true genius is bound to be naive.

 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?



Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath

such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when

The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,

Her ashes new-create another heir

As great in admiration as herself. 

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Boot Camp - Quotes

 D.I. Tony Rosenbum:
Save the drama for your mama and push.
 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

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Changing Lanes - Quotes

 Valerie Gipson:
Whatever drama you've gotten yourself into, it's just the kind of thing that always happens to you. And it never happens to me unless I am in your field of gravity.
 

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Edward Albee - Quotes

 I am not interested in living in a city

where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. 

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Sarah Dessen - Quotes

 I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably.  

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Khaled Hosseini - Quotes

 It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight.

But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. 

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Remember WENN - Quotes

 Betty Roberts:
Creatively, what aspect of radio drama most interests you?
Scott Sherwood:
It doesn't. Never had much time for radio. Stops me from thinking out loud. Bought a second-hand schooner that had one, but I never listened until I ran up on a reef in Samoa and had to wait almost a week for help. Ever try to eat a barnacle?
Betty Roberts:
No.
Scott Sherwood:
Don't.
Betty Roberts:
I promise not to.
 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. 

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Four Rooms - Quotes

 Ted the Bellhop:
Later, in another room, some crazy fucking maniac sticks a gun in my face and forces me to play out some psychosexual drama with his wife.
Margaret:
He made you have psycho sex with his wife?
Ted the Bellhop:
No, he didn't make me fuck his wife, he thought I'd fucked his wife! He held me at gunpoint with a loaded gun!
Margaret:
What kinda gun was it?
Ted the Bellhop:
I don't know, I'm not a gun guy. It was big.
Margaret:
Was it like Dirty Harry's gun?
Ted the Bellhop:
Yeah, sorta like that. Yeah.
Margaret:
Did it have a real long barrel or a short barrel?
Ted the Bellhop:
What difference does it make?
Margaret:
Well, for one thing it's the difference between a .44 Magnum and a Magnum .357.
Ted the Bellhop:
Who the fuck cares whether it was a .44 or a .392? It was a big fucking gun, it was loaded, and it was pointed right at my fucking head.
 

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Flourish - Quotes

 Wendy Covner:
Open the door.
Lucy Covner:
You're gonna hit me!
Wendy Covner:
I am not gonna hit you; you sound like your father!
Lucy Covner:
I just wanted to use your car for one minute to run an errand before Gaby got here, okay?
Wendy Covner:
Please open the damn door. Really, I'm not going to hit you. Also, I didn't know you were into the "F" work; when did that happen? [Pause]
Wendy Covner:
Open the door- which reminds me we're taking this lock out!
Lucy Covner:
I don't want another slap mark on my face for later!
Wendy Covner:
Well, there's not gonna be a later because you're grounded. Gabrielle's on her way.
Lucy Covner:
Tell me why I'm grounded! [Opens the door, her mother slaps her face]
Lucy Covner:
Ow! Ow! What the fuck was that for?!
Wendy Covner:
Don't say the word "fuck"! [Lucy is crying]
Wendy Covner:
Oh please, you should try out for the drama club or something. Go get your essay so you're ready when she comes.
Lucy Covner:
Something bad is gonna happen to you! You wait and see!
 

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Stay Tuned - Quotes

 Voice over on one of the HVTV channels:
And now the all-new mini-series about the French Revolution... Off With His Head, the story of the Marquis de Knable, an enemy of the people, who tries to escape the guillotine by wearing a disguise. It's an epic drama of love, danger, and cross-dressing.
 

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Pineapple Express - Quotes

 Clark:
Dude, I wanted to tell you. You were hilarious today in Drama Class.
Angie Anderson:
Seriously, your Jeff Goldblum impression made me piss my pants.
Clark:
Oh, I wish.
 

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Samuel Beckett - Quotes

 I can't go on, I'll go on. 

Tags: absurdity   drama   existentialism   fiction   humor   nihilism   tragedy     
Roger Hedden - Quotes

 When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway. 

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The Critic - Quotes

 Marty Sherman:
But I can't act!
Drama Teacher:
That's what a young Steve Guttenberg said to me, but look at him now! No, wait... look at him four years ago.
 

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John Henry Newman - Quotes

 Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,

The art of syren choirs;

Hush the seductive voice that floats

Across the trembling wires.



Music's ethereal power was given

Not to dissolve our clay,

But draw Promethean beams from heaven

To purge the dross away. 

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David Mamet - Quotes

 Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.



Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams. 

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The Ref - Quotes

 Lloyd:
I suppose you'll use this drama as a reason to have another affair. I feel sorry for the next delivery man that comes to this house!
 

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Ira Glass - Quotes

 ...uncorny, human sized drama 

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Sarah Dessen - Quotes

 Your mother won a special reward, 

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Kris Courtney - Quotes

 I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from this

same old house resting on the hill, leaving me a view of a carnival once seen from just across the tracks. My pallet is dry now. The colors I see no more. The rain has washed away many of the signs that once stood for a prosper

home and family. My grave is waiting. The dreams once filled my head with

images of world unison, hope and companionship for all. The saga spoken

through my canvas drew darker as the years went on to the bitter cold nights.

All that comes to me now are glimpses of faces that graced my soul.

 

Tags: artistic   drama   memoir     
Clerks. - Quotes

 Randal Graves:
Melodrama coming from you seems about as natural as an oral bowel movement.
 

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Richard Rodriguez - Quotes

 The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay. 

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Marsha Norman - Quotes

 The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. 

Tags: drama   theater   writing     
David Petersen - Quotes

 Physicality is the basis of performance. 

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Tennessee Williams - Quotes

 Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama. 

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Charles Dickens - Quotes

 It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; and, in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song. We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger; drawing forth a dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and, just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard: and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle: where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.



Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight. The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on; which makes a vast difference. The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous. 

Tags: comedy   life   melodrama   tragedy     
Suzan-Lori Parks - Quotes

 The plays should have the half-life of plutonium. 

Tags: drama   plays   theater     
Preity Zinta - Quotes

 To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected. 

Tags: acting   drama   love   pain   rejection     
Karen Marie Moning - Quotes

 When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies. 

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Jonathan Shay - Quotes

 Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm. 

Tags: melodrama   pride   reality     
Tony Kushner - Quotes

 Belize: Hell or heaven?



[Roy indicates  

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 Life is like the drama on a stage.

What was once declared as a sin,

perhaps much worse nowadays. 

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Sarah Dessen - Quotes

 Rogerson, 

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Dodie Smith - Quotes

 Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. 

Tags: drama     
Lily Koppel - Quotes

 How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die. 

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Dodie Smith - Quotes

 I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame... 

Tags: drama     
P.G. Wodehouse - Quotes

 Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. 

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Edith Wharton - Quotes

 She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making. 

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Jonathan Larson - Quotes

 VIVA LA VIE BOHEME! 

Tags: comedy   drama   musical   theatre     
- Quotes

 You have more zeal than good taste, Mart 

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Chuck Palahniuk - Quotes

 people don't want their lives fixed. nobody wants their problems solved.

their dramas. their distractions. their stories resolved. their messes cleaned up.

because what would they have left? just the big scary unknown. 

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Stephanie Kallos - Quotes

 Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it. 

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