Quotes About Personal Drama

#1. One's family is made up of supporting players in one's personal drama. One never supposes that they starred in some possibly gaudy and certainly deeply felt show of their own.

Robertson Davies

#2. Simon had the child's belief that the rest of the world exists as staging for their personal drama; destiny hung over him, casting clues and signs in his path, and he could not help feeling that ha had been vouchsafed a sign, a celestial wink.

J.K. Rowling

#3. I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

Penny Marshall

#4. The kid was cramping Martin's style. Martin's style was drama-free, peace, and quiet. It did not include slamming doors, difficult personal questions, or conversations with teenagers about sex.

Marshall Thornton

#5. The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Richard Rodriguez

#6. I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

George Osborne

#7. The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.

Gavin Newsom

#8. It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion.

Mark Twain

#9. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Alexandra Robbins

#10. The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#11. In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Chetan Bhagat

#12. Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

Kate O'Mara

#13. I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

#14. I am like a brick.

Amrish Puri

#15. It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

Albert Camus

#16. When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming can be very difficult ... You don't need any extra drama. Put the drama into the story, in the characters.

Robert De Niro

#17. I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.

Tony Fadell

#18. The last thing I need is more high school drama but a support group that doesn't dig into my personal business sounds good. They can keep the drama for themselves.

Nikki Godwin

#19. The myth suggests to us that a "good job" will offer us ample money, a social life, status and work which we will find "rewarding." It's actually astonishing how little we pause to reflect on these terms when at school or college.

Tom Hodgkinson

#20. Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

Andrew Bird

#21. I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

Randeep Hooda

#22. Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble ... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.

Emily Meade

#24. I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

William Monahan

#25. Over-the-top dance reality shows are hard for me to watch. The real drama in our world is much more emotional, personal, and extreme. There is manipulation and sneakiness.

Sarah Hay

#26. Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death?

Lloyd John Ogilvie

#27. Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#28. Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#29. Live and learn not to take things so personal.

Toni Wallace

#30. Go to bed; tired is stupid. Tomorrow

Ursula K. Le Guin

#31. He who knows how to pray well, knows how to live well. - St. Augustine

David N. Calvillo

#32. I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Thornton Wilder

#33. It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Marianne Williamson

#34. Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Mark Twain