I have only a couple of Super 6s now, but I do have quite a few black-face Fenders around the studio. They… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
As a believer and somebody who practices the faith, it's been at times intimidating to try to put myself into the mind,… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
It's actually a character choice for a movie I've been filming in South Korea called Okja. My director had this idea of… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“During school age, the bright, shame-based child will attempt to develop inhuman ego defenses or defending scripts, such as perfectionism, blaming, criticizing,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things… — Crystal Chappell Copy Share Image
My character in 'Fanaah' has a cool and crazy look at the same time. I'm very particular about my accessories and clothes… — Anita Hassanandani Reddy Copy Share Image
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Actors are here to perform various kind of roles and we represent some another character. You can't judge us by what we… — Sana Khan Copy Share Image
[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“Too much of anything creates an imbalance in life. This is true even of virtues such as nonviolence. You never know when… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write -… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character. — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
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Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
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I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Deadpool exploded for the youth around 2010 with 'Marvel vs. Capcom.' He was the most popular character. He does kicks, then mocks… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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