If I'm not like my characters, I think just it's like a musician liking to play certain pieces of music rather than… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dr. Okun. Who's named after a special-effects guy named Jeff Okun, who had done Stargate for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its… — Todd Alcott Copy Share Image
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk'… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing… — David Small Copy Share Image
For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of… — Joanna Kulig Copy Share Image
My view is that "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" is about putting people 'on the record,' who otherwise would have been… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
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Players like Didier Drogba, going to watch him play and seeing him off the pitch as well, I got to see how… — Tammy Abraham Copy Share Image
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I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
It's strange: I love pop music, and I really can enjoy it, but I didn't feel like the characters within pop music… — Shura Copy Share Image
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When I got to know 'Bigg Boss' is being made in Marathi, I knew the show would require a host, who has… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
“Do you see why relativism is so attractive? Relativists seem to think if they can get rid of both morality and God,… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
There are a lot of times when Jessica Jones is alone in her house, and there's no dialogue. She's rough around the… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image