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Character Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls…
- Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
- Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
- Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
- Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say…
- Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where…
- A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God…
More Character Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly… — Rowan Atkinson
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson