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drama two space
Chris Albrecht How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which made everything very difficult and pushed back.
drama character looks
Chiwetel Ejiofor I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
drama school college
Chiwetel Ejiofor Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.
drama book writing
Chinua Achebe To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?
drama paris manhattan
Edward Hirsch I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.
dramatic significance acquire
Edith Wharton A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
drama party school
Eddie Marsan I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
drama meals coke
Eddie Izzard Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.
firsts sun start-the-day
Charles Dickens The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
firsts profession
Charles Caleb Colton A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
firsts three novel
Charles Stross I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
firsts christ salvation
Charles Spurgeon The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
firsts done christ
Charles Spurgeon Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
firsts chaos authority
Alan Moore Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
firsts film made
Al Pacino I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
firsts shy language
Al Pacino My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
firsts spurs worship
Aiden Wilson Tozer We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
comedy well-known wells
Eddie Izzard I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
comedy sensibility my-own
Ben Stiller Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
comedy shattered meetings
Ben Stiller Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
comedy undone producers
Carol Leifer I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
comedy duty good hook hope minute reader start time walk whether
Mark Billingham Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'
comedy kind
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.
comedy attorney wanted
Aisha Tyler I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
comedy feels comfortable
Bob Newhart I feel more comfortable in comedy.
comedy audience one-thing
Bernie Mac The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.