Quotes 81 till 100 of 122.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
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The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.
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There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780 -
Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
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Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel.
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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We want these movies to be timeless, and we want people to really engage with the characters and find something that they can really relate to and emotionally connect with.
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