Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clark Johnson

I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

Robin McLeavy

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

Sarah Waters

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.

George Romero

I hung out at a local film lab and learned how to use the tools. I grew up in B&W... all serious, meaningful things were in B&W! If you trace TV, the serious dramas were in B&W, and I think it's a holdover from those of us who were working then who think B&W was good.

Robert Thompson

These are old procedural dramas dolled up for the new century, ... 'CSI' is the new 'Quincy, M.E.' Bruckheimer is good at using old-fashioned television storytelling techniques in the era of 'Lost.'

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Antonya Nelson

I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.

Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Gary Cooper

I'm not too sure UK would be willing to let us use their fields, even the practice field. We wouldn't be a problem. Our season doesn't overlap with (the men's).

Sarah Peters

We have an overlap of one month. I remember him, but he doesn't remember me. But we met.

Craig Thompson

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

Wendelin Wiedeking

Volkswagen sells only 2.8 percent of its products in the same segments as Porsche. An overlap first starts to become relevant for antitrust authorities when it is 25 to 33 percent.

Whitney M. Young

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Marshall McLuhan

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Nancy Kress

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Len Wiseman

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Liam Neeson

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

Heidi Julavits

I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.

Kate Winslet

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

John Beckman

And it actually works. A professional diver tested it in relatively shallow water.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.