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Quotes About Drama

I do believe I shall faint," announced Lady Agnes. The men holding her tightened their grips and she turned and scowled at them. They let go. She staggered over to Dominic.
~ Kathryne Kennedy
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?
~ Kathy Reichs
Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.
~ Kathy Reichs
Ben locked his eyes on mine for a long moment. Then, "How?" "How do you think?" I smiled, then slapped him full across the face
~ Kathy Reichs
Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.
~ Kathy Reichs
Oh, boy," Jim said, giving an excited wiggle. "Cat fight! Wish I had some popcorn.
~ Katie MacAlister
Lady Rowena gasped in horror at the sight of Lord Raoul's majestic purple-helmeted warrior of love.
~ Katie MacAlister
If you agree to come with us…I'll end this show.
~ Katsura Hoshino
I wouldn't get too close. Yu is in quite a lather!
~ Katsura Hoshino
Put on a smile…little Pierrot. Tragedy has thrust us…together upon this stage!
~ Katsura Hoshino
Lightning, but not bright. Thunder, but not loud. Sometimes something in the sky connects to something in the ground in ways we don't expect and more or less miss except through reverse drama: things were heightened and now they're calmer. -- Reverse Drama
~ Kay Ryan
All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…" The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
He quickly brought the gun up, even as she brought the wire down like a tribal Indian spearing a fish.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
This is theatre, not the work-a-day world where people are mean spirited and drag themselves about with "marks of woe".
~ Keith Johnstone
Fox is a television character, and she isn't dead yet. But she will be, soon. She's a character on a television show called The Library. You've never seen the Library on TV, but I bet you wish you had.
~ Kelly Link
Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.
~ Kelly Link
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
~ Ken Burns
People don't want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.
~ Kenneth Patchen
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.
~ Kenneth Tynan
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
~ Kenneth Tynan
I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.
~ Busy Philipps
But the very fact that this process is unconscious gives us the reason why man has thought of everything except the psyche in his attempts to explain myths. He simply didn't know that the psyche contains all the images that have ever given rise to myths, and that our unconscious is an acting and suffering subject with an inner drama which primitive man rediscovers, by means of analogy, in the processes of nature both great and small.11 [9]
~ C.G. Jung
That gives peace, when people feel that they are living [as] actors in the divine drama. That gives the only meaning to human life; everything else is banal and you can dismiss it. A career, producing of children, are all maya compared with that one thing, that your life is meaningful.
~ C.G. Jung
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. —Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky
~ C.J. Box