Characters Quotes

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All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. — Alphonse Karr
The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a… — Kyle Smith
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of… — Eric Allin Cornell
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and… — Roberta Williams
Most women have no characters at all. — Alexander Pope
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake. — Takeshi Kitano
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. — Jennifer Beals
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single… — Carl Correns
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw… — Arthur Lowe
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them. — Nancy Kress
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do,… — Larry Brooks
Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple… — Margaret Foley
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or… — Nancy Kress
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but… — John Green
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only… — Edwin Muir
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say… — Henry David Thoreau
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well,… — Michael Leunig
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. — Douglas A. Lawson
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other. — Diane Johnson

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