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The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West. -- David Roberts
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations. -- Brandon Sanderson
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell. -- Simon Schama
I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs. -- Sigourney Weaver
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. -- Nicholas Sparks
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. -- Aaron McGruder
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. -- Ken Follett
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories. -- Tony Kushner
I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?' -- Ken Follett
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. -- Joanna Trollope
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them. -- Ciaran Hinds
To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. -- Jose Saramago
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye. -- David Nevins
My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey. -- Asif Kapadia
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance. -- James Gray
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element. -- Gus Van Sant
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. -- Richard Russo
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't. -- Suzanne Collins
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever. -- Jane Wiedlin
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. -- David Maraniss
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration. -- David Mamet
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I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say. -- Ang Lee
Jessica felt like a heroine in a tragic, dramatic love story. She lifted her chin and turned away. It was all over. -- Francine Pascal
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. -- Ambrose Bierce
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ]. -- Megan Chance
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own. -- Richelle Mead
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION. -- Samuel Richardson

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