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Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment. -- Shekhar Kapur
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. -- Brendan Coyle
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. -- Junichiro Koizumi
I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures. -- Kimberley Nixon
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from. -- Ben Chaplin
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. -- Julien Green
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. -- Eugene Ionesco

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