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I was trained as a straight dramatist.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
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Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
Cate Blanchett / Actress
Comedian
Woody
Allen
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Woody Allen
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Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
H. C. Bunner /
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Shake
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
H. C. Bunner /
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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
Edward Bond / Playwright
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I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.
Robert Lepage /
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
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Romance
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I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.
John Logan / Playwright
Lines
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Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.
Mark O'donnell /
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Oliver Stone / Film Director
Doe
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Historian
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton Wilder / Playwright
Arresting
Believe
Comment
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Human Beings
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Pure
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Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
Peter Morgan / Film Writer
Downfall
Interesting
Particular
Self Destruction
Dramatist
Failings
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Led
Nixon
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When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Cedric Hardwicke / Film Actor
Fine
Not Talking
Dramatist
Reveals
Servants
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From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Twenty Two
Absolutely Everything
Time New Everything
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Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
Tom Paulin / Poet
Robust
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I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.
Adriana Trigiani / Novelist
Love Time Always
Directed
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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Men
Letters
Too Late
Writing
Good Myself Man
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All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?
Louis Macneice / Poet
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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George Pierce Baker /
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The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
Peter Mullan / Actor
Lying
Public Relations
Wish
Sisters
Condemn
Good Wish I Wish
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Lies
Pack
Relations
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The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.
John Logan / Playwright
History
Drama
Reading
Screenwriting
Separation
History Believe I Believe
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Because I'm a dramatist, I'm allowed to take liberties, but I want my films to be based in truth, and it's very important to me that the community we're focusing on is happy with the film. From an ethical point of view, that's everything.
Sean Baker /
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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
Alice Mcdermott / Writer
Handy
Life Myself Look
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Rituals
Pause
Wakes
Weddings
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
Oliver Stone / Film Director
Interpretation
Research
Responsibility
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Digest
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Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.
John Logan / Playwright
Bubbles
Characterization
Horror
Storytelling
Beneath
Bond
Colors
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Emerge
Erupt
James
James Bond
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As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.
Peter Morgan / Film Writer
Cynical
Fork In The Road
Rings
Suits
Character People Way
Character People Will
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