Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Before you deal out your moral judgement on me, perhaps you should ask yourself what you did.” — Tony Moyle Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm a very respectful fighter, I don't get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don't want to fight… — Andre Ward Copy Share Image
I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I got good at trying to throw a voice on a character from the very beginning as opposed to like reading it… — Kenan Thompson Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to… — Aidan Gillen Copy Share Image
People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in… — Michael Gough Copy Share Image
I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
“traditions that made an ideology out of the concept of Oneness created a morality that denigrated or made unreal the individual self… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
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