#ram

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#drama #new #novel #resolve #same

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#centre #conflict #different #drama #gotta

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie. ↗

— Jerry Only

#clash #discovered #i #obviously #pistols

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there. ↗

— Jerry Only

#couple #different #hanging #held #i

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#besides #combinations #decided #diffuse #fact

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#birth #defects #enact #i #legislation

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. ↗

— George Osborne

#decisions #economy #foundations #government #programmes

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#back #because #came #dark #go

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo. ↗

— Clive Owen

#did #drama #drama school #europe #i