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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
David Mamet

Great, End, Struggle

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz

War, Reality, Country

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
John Podhoretz

Food, Job, Made

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.
Nicole Kidman

Work, Feeling, Far

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin

Education, Knowledge, Wrong

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole

Society, Moral, Ten

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
Kesha

Laundry, Weekly

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.
Kesha

Men, Destroy, Hobby

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne

Love, Loved, Ourselves

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
Whoopi Goldberg

Success, Good, Successful

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Friends, Lives, Everyday

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
David Attenborough

Against, Economic, Advantage

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Life, Live, Long

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound

General, Sound, Instinct

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
Jean Baudrillard

America, Fiction, Indeed

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
Bell Hooks

Beautiful, Judge, Whether

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
Rachel Maddow

Great, Done, Talk

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
Morley Safer

God, Travel, Fine

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor

Truth, Art, Matter

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Work, Truth, Single

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
Ashley Tisdale

Dating, Nice, Give

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Mortimer Adler

Love, View, Instinct

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Leadership, Power, Fear

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Brendan Fraser

Through, Show, Purpose

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
Harvey Weinstein

Movies, Important, Economic

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
Harvey Weinstein

Movies, Important, Economic

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
Paracelsus

Nature, Everything, Distress

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Jean Rostand

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
Haruki Murakami

After, Getting, Everyday

What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.
Theresa May

Work, Important, Both

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