Zooey Deschanel

What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

American Actress

Taylor Schilling

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

Ali Smith

What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?

Scottish Writer

Sam Kean

I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.

American Writer

Li Ning

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

Chinese Businessman

Brandon Routh

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

American Actor

Roy Orbison

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

American Musician

India Arie

Everything in my music has always been emotionally and spiritually motivated... But after I started doing yoga, the place where I came from changed drastically.

Kim Jong-un

It is important to launch a mass and society-wide struggle to drastically increase the production of consumer goods.

North Korean Leader

Ainsley Earhardt

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

American Journalist

Use 'drastically' to describe a very large scale change or difference, much more than 'a lot'.

Scale of Change

'Drastically' often has a negative connotation, suggesting that changes could be harmful or intense.

Negative Connotation

Use 'drastically' to put strong emphasis on the extent or effect of a change.

Strong Emphasis

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