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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.178, University of Michigan Press

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

"Oprah Talks to Tina Fey". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February 2009.