I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you judge a woman by her appearance it doesn't define her, it defines you. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
People change, and often they become the person they said they will never be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
No genre is easy. For an actor, it's a serious business even when he's essaying a funny character. In fact, comedy is… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
It's good sometimes to have a character that starts as one thing and ends as another, but James Bond, Hercules, these are… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only character determines, decides and defines one's value in life and not money, power or fame; but things still have to take… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is,… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
“Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
