I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well,… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
On a certain level, we don't try enough cases. We should try more cases before juries and let jurors decide. On grand… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image.… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience. — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have… — John Hawley Copy Share Image
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Copy Share Image
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness,… — Henry Clausen Copy Share Image
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
