Dramatization's Quotes

#1. In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.

Stephen Graham Jones

#2. As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story

Richard Yates

#3. These are NOT times for dramatization and talking, but meditation and praying.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#4. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

Gilbert Highet

#5. There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Norah Jones

#6. I wanted a summer filled with porch swings, lemonade and fireflies.

Tiffany King

#7. I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.

Jennifer Grey

#8. And the new day was a great big fish

Terry Pratchett

#9. We know that those things to which we have an emotional connection stick with us better than those for which we have none. Dramatization is a way to get your intellectual ideas across to your audience emotionally.

Brian McDonald

#10. On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#11. Naturally, people - especially in America - live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

Ivan Eland

#12. The suffering faces of depleted men and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help-they were beyond that-but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion.

Markus Zusak

#13. Just as you can only really smell incense in the first moments after it is lit, or taste wine in that instant of the first sip, the impulse of love springs from a single, perilous moment in time, I feel.

Soseki Natsume

#14. Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

Karl Schroeder

#15. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Shirley Jackson

#16. Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.

Harsha Bhogle

#17. The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

James A. Baldwin

#18. Do you like it? she asks. Universal bitch speak for I think it's hideous.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

Dan Simmons

#20. When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Simon Beaufoy

#21. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Steven Spielberg

#22. Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

Vijay Seshadri

#23. The process of self-healing is the privilege of every being. Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is self-healing a dramatization of the personality as though you could do something superior. Self-healing is a genuine process of the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#24. In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

Robbie Williams

#25. Only if the computers really love each other.

Groucho Marx