Melodrama Quotes

• The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Insane, World

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• In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

  Sidney Lumet

  Drama, Personajes, Historias

  Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.31, Vintage

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• Si crees, como los griegos, que el hombre está a merced de los dioses, entonces escribes tragedia. El final es inevitable desde el principio. Pero si crees que el hombre puede resolver sus propios problemas y no está a merced de nadie, entonces probablemente escribas melodrama.

  Lillian Hellman

  Creer, Escribir, Hombres

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Play, Two, Tragedy

  Elbert Hubbard Bert Hubbard (1923). "Escritos escogidos de Elbert Hubbard: su acuñación de sabiduría, acuñada a partir de una vida de amor, risas y trabajo".

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• Pero ya he tenido suficiente melodrama en esta vida, y daría de buena gana mis cinco sentidos si pudieran garantizarnos nuestra paz y seguridad actuales. La felicidad no es un bien preciado, es una cualidad del pensamiento, un estado de ánimo. Por supuesto que tenemos nuestros momentos de depresión; pero también hay otros momentos, cuando el tiempo, no medido por el reloj, corre hacia la eternidad y, al captar su sonrisa, sé que estamos juntos, marchamos al unísono, ningún destello de pensamiento u opinión crea una barrera entre nosotros.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Giving, Mind

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• Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

  Guy Maddin

  People, Feelings, Fuel

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Stories, Clean, Shows

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Reality, Blessing

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• Me gusta el melodrama porque se sitúa justo en el punto de encuentro entre la vida y el teatro.

  Luchino Visconti

  Theater, Meetings

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• Si un hombre se guiara simplemente por lo que ve, podría verse tentado a afirmar que la esencia de la democracia es el melodrama.

  Irving Babbitt

  Men, Essence, Democracy

  Irving Babbitt (2005). "On Literature, Cultures, and Religion", p. 112, Transaction Publishers.

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• Hay una delgada línea por la que tengo que caminar a lo largo del proceso de escritura de una novela. Es la línea que separa el drama del melodrama, la línea que separa la evocación de emociones auténticas de la manipulación.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Drama, Escritura, Emocional

  Fuente: collider.com

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• So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Ideas, Perfection

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• Las discusiones suelen ser como los melodramas: tienen un principio, un nudo y un desenlace previsibles.

  Gay Hendricks

  Beginning Middle And End, Argument, Ends

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• La felicidad no es un bien preciado, sino una cualidad del pensamiento, un estado de ánimo.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Happiness, Positivity, Inner Peace

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Creo que eso es lo que realmente distingue a Schmidt. En el cine actual, mucho de lo que atrae al público es el drama o tiene que ver con la ciencia ficción, y Schmidt es simplemente humano. No hay melodrama, no hay artificio, sólo se trata de un ser humano.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Fiction, Dramatic

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• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Teenager, Fighting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

  Irrfan Khan

  Theater, Known

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• Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

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  Ram Dass

  Drama, Humorous, Mellow

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• Luchar contra tu ego es un melodrama del ego.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Ego

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• I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Glee, Watches

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

  Tom Baker

  Darkness, Feelings, Trying

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• Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Hands, Annoyed

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sex, Civilization, Numbers

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• I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's a big difference - people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.

  Guy Maddin

  Sueño, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Ifs

  Robert Penn Warren (2015). “The Legacy of the Civil War”, p.33, U of Nebraska Press

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