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Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. -- Eric Johnston
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. -- Edward Bond
I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. -- Brendan Coyle
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. -- John Eaton
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room. -- Anne-Marie Duff
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
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear. -- Margot Kidder
If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part. -- John Eaton
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. -- Martin McDonagh
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. -- George Edward Woodberry
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! -- Deborah Wiles
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it." -- John Eaton
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. -- Roland Barthes

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