Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

Shadows ran all around her and someone was talking to her but it was all just white noise. Goodbye solo she would never perform. Goodbye perfect night that never got the chance to end in...

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.

Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn’t alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves...

At the heart of drama is conflict.

Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense....

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

They met me in the day of success: and I havelearned by the perfectest report, they have more inthem than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desireto question them further, they made themselves air,into which...

I don’t believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It’s like I don’t want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random…that people are just molecules in the...

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. “Save the drama for your mama ” I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that’s all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then...

A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred. Intention fuels every dramatic action, including the writing of dramatic stories,...

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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

People always clap for the wrong things

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how...

I’m sick of this. It’s like being twelve again, dealing with all this damned drama. I like her. Does she like me? What if she doesn’t like me?

[There’s a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It’s silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama,...

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does...

He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional scenes with his mother, Dot, and his friends. Repeatedly he chided...

If you can’t take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

Maybe I shouldn’t trust him after all, just like he doesn’t seem to trust me fully. Shit, is it always so hard to get close to someone?

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!

Hey Kate, you coming to our show Friday night?” He leaned in close and touched my shoulder. “The guys would love to see you there.””Yes. Yes, the guys would indeed.” Carter rolled his eyes and...

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured – we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don’t start choking.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

In fact the “mask” theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism”, and Robert Jackall,...

And as her voice carried in the darkness, he wasn’t sure where the borders between her story and his dream were. But he saw no more nightmares; he dreamed of a noble Sky Ghost and...

Out here everybody abuses everybody. It’s just the way it is. So you’d better get used to it.” – excerpt from: freefalling

Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

Come on up, boys-I’m dead.

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a...

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be...

With yours.

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment...

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah… Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting...

I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away...

…then we went skinny dippin’ and did things that frighten the fish…Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

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....

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

Entonces, mi padre y yo nos mirábamos en silencio. El silencio siempre fue la conversación más apasionada entre mi padre y yo.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn’t drama.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.