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Quotes About Drama

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama. This remorseless inevitableness is what pervades scientific thought. The laws of physics are the decrees of fate.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Of course, he smothered it in words—odd words, too—melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.
~ Algernon Blackwood
I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers.
~ Ali Smith
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.
~ Ali Smith
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll probably find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened. And if we don't, we feel cheated.
~ Ali Smith
Só a vida simbólica pode exprimir a necessidade cotidiana da alma.' E como não têm algo assim, as pessoas não podem sair da esfera de sua experiência - essa vida opressiva, terrível, banal em que não são 'nada senão...' e é por isso que as pessoas são neuróticas... A vida é muito racional, não há nenhuma existência simbólica em que eu seja outra coisa, em que eu cumpra o meu papel como um dos atores no divino drama da existência.
~ Alice O. Howell
Judge Brassard, they decided, would be played by Alan Alda, the sensitive guy.
~ Alicia Mundy
Leo! Houd hem tegen! ... Leo. O, Leo, wat heb ik gedaan? - Alice
~ Alison Baird
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
~ Alison Bechdel
'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.
~ Alison Sweeney
With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
~ Alison Sweeney
I'm a fan of daytime drama I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'
~ Alison Sweeney
His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber
~ Alison Weir
Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever.
~ Allan Gurganus
Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and this scene served as a compliment to him.
~ Allan Massie
I like writing teen characters because they're vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.
~ Allan Stratton
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
~ Allen Tate
Gabrielle, Hale?" Kat smacked his shoulder. "It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of school, but you had to use her to help you? Gabrielle!" "I can hear you," her cousin sang beside her. Hale looked at Gabrielle and gestured at Kat. "She's adorable when she's jealous." Kat kicked his shin.
~ Ally Carter