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Drama Quotes
"I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have."
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"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."
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"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
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"I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it."
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"I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger."
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"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."
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"No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given."
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"You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife.""His widow," Devon muttered."Have you seduced her?""Not yet."West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?"
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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
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"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."
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"Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got in a set-to that looked to be more about who was eyeballing whose boyfriend than who had the right to wear the same outfit that two of the ladies appeared to be wearing at the same time. Or possibly, what it was really about was who was wearing said outfit better."
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"Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground - I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation - Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves."
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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia."
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"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."
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"There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable."
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"We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next."
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"I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice."
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"This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI."
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"We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements."
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"I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection."
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"Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater."
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"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
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"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."
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"With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from."
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"The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories."
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"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
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"I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material."
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"Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing."
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"It is a reality show... this show is never without drama."
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"I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape."
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"One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath."
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