It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way,… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I don't think I change, but it definitely makes me aware of some of the things that are inside of me. Actually,… — Roland Møller Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Might not certain vices have the same relation to character that the rigidity of a fixed idea as to intellect? Whether as… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
In WWE there's a huge degree of acting you need to have to become legendary, to become popular. You have to become… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are… — Donna Murphy Copy Share Image
My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid… — Common Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
At the time, I used to say, "We should market this like Everybody Loves Raymond. It's just a guy dealing with his… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When I realized that Reuben was a young man who really wanted to be taken seriously, because he was dismissed for being… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Moral posturing is part and parcel of temptation. It does not invite us directly to do evil - no, that would be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact… — Chris Black Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character,… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social… The Communists have not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
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