#drama

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 itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

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. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#drama #age

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#dramatic #important #into #music #news

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#drama #ecological #leading #life #obtaining

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#basically #class #could #courses #did

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten. ↗

— Julia Ormond

#come #drama #drama school #forgotten #gets

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#box #bring #diversity #does #dramatic

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#bunch #create #drama #fake #family

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#appropriated #because #big #billions #counts

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear! ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#devil #drama #pact #art