Characters Quotes

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By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world.… — Liz Curtis Higgs
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters,… — Regina Spektor
I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any… — Wes Anderson
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters. — Oswald Chambers
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular… — Samuel L. Jackson
I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you… — Rob Lowe
Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last… — Peter Cushing
I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films. — Neil LaBute
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or… — Dwayne McDuffie
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance… — Alasdair MacIntyre
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the… — John Phillips
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is… — Horacio Quiroga
I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living… — Rupert Holmes
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by… — Hayao Miyazaki
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and… — Jim Toomey
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to… — Carlisle Floyd
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. — Carlisle Floyd

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