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Quotes About Drama

At this point, John flung himself to the ground and screamed, "YOU SHOT ME! AAARRRRGHHH!" Not a shot had been fired. I rushed to John's side. "You shot him! He has four kids! Or should I say, four orphans.
~ David Wong
John looked at him and yelled, "What are you waiting for? Shoot him in the mouth!" The word "mouth" could not be heard over the gunshots.
~ David Wong
Armando appeared in the door of the bathroom with his gun drawn, because in his world even a vomiting woman was apparently a problem that could be cured with a well-placed bullet.
~ David Wong
There was an incident," he said. "A series of incidents, I guess. A dead guy, another dead guy. Some drugs. It's kind of a long story.
~ David Wong
To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I sat down and put my fingertips to my temples, rubbing hard. "We have one fallen tree, one destroyed Rookery, one delusional butler and no good brandy. Is that what you are telling me?" "And the cook's down with piles and more than half the staff are suffering from catarrh," she added maliciously. I looked to Brisbane, who was smiling broadly. "God bless us, everyone," he said, spreading his arms wide.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I slammed the door in her face and applied my bloody shoe to the lurkers in the bathtub,
~ Deanna Raybourn
It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.
~ Deb Caletti
What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.
~ Debasish Mridha
Mintha keresnénk a hálátlan vagy a lehetetlen feladatokat, és vannak, akik ilyenek közt élik az életüket, mert az életet csak úgy tudják elképzelni, hogy az csupa szenvedés, küzdelem, konfliktus és dráma: bonyolítják, hogy kibogozhassák, és így elfoglalják magukat egész idÅ' alatt, ami nekik adatott.
~ Javier Marías
A future historian of theatre, impressed by recent pronouncements on the state of drama and stage, might call the past two decades, give or take a few years, the Time of Great Experiments. Or, the Age of Transition, during which theatre, as it has been known in the West since the ancient Greeks, finally changed into something different that still might be named theatre, but then might not.
~ JEAN ALTER
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
~ Jean Anouilh
After the drama, he had to live in the tragedy.
~ Jean Genet
She was pregnant. She was pregnant. That complete fuck.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
It is the size of the characters' desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.
~ Jean Hegland
How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
~ Jean Plaidy
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
~ Jean Racine
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
~ Jean Racine
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
~ Jean Racine
In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that they had found my play boring. I was told that none of them was bored, that they were often touched by it, and that they would go and see it again with pleasure. What more do they want?
~ Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
~ I always think.
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
~ Jeanette Winterson
In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.
~ Jeanine Basinger
Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.
~ Jeanine Basinger