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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 Books are out of date!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.
mean secret purpose
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
mean men light
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Charles Caleb Colton Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Charles Dickens Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
Charles Sturt The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
mean plot use
Charles Stross Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.
mean trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.