Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dawn French

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

David Simon

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

Alan Davis

The stock has probably bottomed out. But with no dramatic increases in earnings any time soon, the stock will probably increase in line with earnings growth.

The more dramatic effect was in 1998 and 2000. There was a growth in Latino and Asian- American registration rates and a maintenance of the higher levels of voter participation.

Dramatic difference. I've even dropped a pant size and haven't dieted, haven't exercised.

Any estimates now will be quite preliminary and subject to dramatic change.

Lesley Garrett

Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.

Greil Marcus

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits, ... Mystery Train.

Electric lighting as a driver of the breast-cancer epidemic worldwide -- that's a dramatic big thing, and new.

Ron Meyer

There's a shrinking number of dramatic stars who can guarantee an opening-weekend audience. They must be in the right vehicle at the right time.

There's been this dramatic rise in interest rates recently, and it's sent a shiver through the market.

There's been a fairly dramatic expansion of the investor universe. This has happened since the end of 1999.

There's drama at the border. Visa overstays is a yawn.

There is such a dramatic correlation between practicing well and playing well. . . . Talent has never been a question, either. We knew that last year when we recruited him. He has a ton of ability.

At a minimum, we do not see any dramatic reversals for North American automakers.

Margaret Mead

As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

Bill Clinton

This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.

It's not the full-fledged, three-act opera with the overly dramatic theatrics. It's light and fun.

It's obviously a surprise for people, but I don't think it makes a dramatic difference.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary. To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary, ... To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

This is a time for all of us who share responsibility for mining safety to come together and look for ways to make mining safer. We have made dramatic improvements over the last 15 years, but there's more to be done.

This is nothing dramatic following Texas Instruments' upgrade last week.

This is occurring in spite of dramatic increases in health spending the last three or four years. The provinces are spending more and more and more on health care, and the wait times are stalling out.

Robert Dallek

It's a dramatic turnabout. Events have overtaken him.

It's a dramatic message that will have a dramatic impact.

Jerry Smith

It's a great finishing hole and I am sure there will be a lot of drama if it comes down to that.

Joanne Kelly

It's a fine line we walk on 'Warehouse 13.' We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble.

Brooks Atkinson

As thought it is a contribution to public knowledge. As drama it is vivid and bold.

Kenneth Tynan

A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.

The oil market is possibly at that dramatic stage near the end of a big run, when price swings tend to be very dramatic, and the euphoria and panic levels are at extremes.

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.