Characters Quotes

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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims,… — Edward Thorndike
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use. — Lily Tomlin
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may… — Stanley Tucci
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll… — Anne Tyler
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of… — John Updike
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has… — Christopher Walken
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's… — David Walliams
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write… — David Walliams
The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird. — Julie Walters
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. — Mia Wasikowska
I like characters who remind me of someone I know. — Mia Wasikowska
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters. — Jacki Weaver
I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am! — Jacki Weaver
My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my… — Sigourney Weaver
I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. — Len Wein
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. — Len Wein
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake… — Len Wein
The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of… — Len Wein
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I… — Vivienne Westwood

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