Quotes About Drama

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings. Explicit philosophical statements regarding the grounds for and nature of ethical behavior, stated in a verbally comprehensible manner, were not established through rational endeavor.

After all, if you're not the leading man in your own drama, you're a bit player in someone else's—and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part

These are the necessary elements whose interactions define drama and fiction. One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

recomendaba: «Si hay un rifle apoyado en la pared en el primer acto, tiene que dispararse en el segundo. De lo contrario, no pinta nada ahí».

We are dormant adventurers, lovers, leaders, artists, and rebels, but need to discover that we are all those things by seeing the reflection of such patterns in dramatic and literary form.

Our ancestors acted out a drama, a fiction: they personified the force that governs fate as a spirit that can be bargained with, traded with, as if it were another human being. And the amazing thing is that it worked.

Leyendo.) «Doña Inés del alma mía…» Y la firma de don Juan.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

Squirrelflight gave Brambleclaw a last, long look, anger and sadness battling in her gaze, then stalked away to join the gray tom.

Berrynose is a real pain in the tail, and yet he gets two apparently sensible she-cats padding after him, Jayfeather thought with a shake of his head. Weird.

Wow!" Sandstorm exclaimed. "What a dreadful thing to do! Bramblestar will certainly throw you out of the Clan.

Where are the others?" I asked. "They all snuck off to bone each other," Milo announced. "Whoadie and Chén slipped away first, then Debbie snuck off with Graham." I had no idea how to respond to this information.

Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that.

tragedy is partly a matter of where a story ends.

There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie!

To her the theater was never "show business." My grandmother would rise up out of her grave if she heard me use that word. She'd say "show--do you mean a circus?" and she would say it as if she were the Red Queen saying, "Off with her head!"

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

Mourning Becomes Electra

No." She waited, holding back with an innate sense of drama while they floundered hopelessly among lesser materials and commonplace outfits.

When 'Nil By Mouth' was released, people thought that's what we were actually like, that they'd put me and Ray in front of the cameras and filmed what came out. No acting involved.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.