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  • In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.

  • I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

    Names   Wish   Would Be  
  • The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

    Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.102, Del Rey
  • As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I bail myself out with a joke. But it's like trying to do movies where there's a dramatic undertone.

    People   Trying   Bail  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.

    Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.668, Best Books on
  • There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit.

    Eye   Light   Secret  
  • The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian oversight of the military inside the Pentagon is really about as exciting as anything you ever want to deal with. It is really amazing.

  • The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution in the globe that has the scale of the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. And you see it with renewable energy and you see it with LED lighting, which takes a fraction of the energy for the existing bulbs. All new lights are going to be LED. Electric vehicles. There are a lot of changes underway right now. I'm excited by the prospect, and I look forward to working in the months and years to come to accelerate this transition.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

  • It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

    "How Do You Find A Story In A Painting?". TED TALK, www.npr.org. June 7, 2013.
  • Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

    Respect   Gun   Views  
    Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press
  • I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.

    Believe   Law   Climate  
  • There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

    Art   Hands   Challenges  
    "Art, Truth & Politics". Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 2005.
  • But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.

    Choices   Done   Earth  
  • It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

    Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.
  • I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.

    Writing   Mean   Long  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.

    Latin   Moving   Wrinkles  
    "Salma Hayek Talks Acne, Depression, & Botox" by Kacy Ray, www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.
  • I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

    "The Innovation Question". Interview with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.
  • I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid that would bump my knee and scream and cry as if I'd been shot in the face. So just automatically, the only outlet for my drama was acting and I loved theater.

    Drama   Kids   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

    Fate   Steps   Dramatic  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.711, "Издательство ""Проспект"""
  • As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

  • I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

    Stuff   Scripts   Comedy  
    Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2012.
  • I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.

    Spiritual   Stars   Voice  
    "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
  • I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

  • A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

    Children   Men   Wife  
    Source: heathenharvest.org
  • The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

    Essence   Ideas   People  
  • Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

    Drama   Needs   Form  
    Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.99, Harvard University Press
  • We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
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