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“My character is not a mathematical equation to prove the right-hand side is equal to the left-hand side”

Characteristics Of Leadership Character Quotes Character Description

Author:Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“My character is not flawless.”

Character Flawless

Author:Breckin Meyer

“My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'”

Giving Wells Said Important Self Character Idiot Promotion

Author:Stephen Colbert

“My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.”

People Thinking Character Fighting Strong Interesting Situation Unusual Stature

Author:Chiaki Kuriyama

“My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.”

Character Happens Fun New York Spring Things Happen Spectacular Make Things Happen

Author:Derek Hough

“My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.”

People Way Trying Character Simple Interesting Rooms Subtle Simple Ways

Author:Emily Watson

“My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.”

Character Millions Figures Workers Tramps

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.”

Doe Ends Character Form Fun Views Shapes Band Point Of View Eras Iron 80s Spectrum Absolutely Nothing Egotistical Jupiter Rockstars Weasels

Author:Steve Valentine

“My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.”

Long Character Stories Bigs Hours Wife Seasons Transition Episodes Arcs Good Wife

Author:Graham Phillips

“My character, thoughts, emotions, thinking whatever you will experience is a part of a product of my upbringing in the one I believe. and I don't force you into believing what I believe.”

Life Inspirational Believe Thoughts

Author:Aiyaz Uddin

“My character was a homogenization of various things, whether it be the attitude of a Bruiser Brody, or the look of Nikita Koloff or the way that Nikita looked at the people. I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.”

People Way Years Looks Littles Made Character Bits My Own Attitude Little Bit Various Made It

Author:Bill Goldberg

“My character was forged by independence and self-sufficiency in the face of loneliness, so I assumed the tools for survival were already in my kit, it was just a matter of learning to use them. But not only do I not have the tools, I have no plans and no supplies and seem to be working in a different medium entirely.”

Life Character Independence Unfairness

Author:Mackenzi Lee

Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.”

Character Productions Kidnapped

Author:Claire Danes

“My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.”

Character Feet Clothes Hated Yellow Purple Obnoxious Tights Stinky

Author:Andrea Barber

“My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.”

Ifs Stills Character Turns Corners Versions What If Around The Corner Spleen

Author:Jack Dee

“My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.”

Littles Character Bits Little Bit Okay Math Department Brighter Math And Science

Author:Monique Coleman

“My characteristics [of Ideal Black Man.] aren't as specific. I'm more general. I'm more like, I have to be able to talk to him. You know, we have to have good communications. He has to be interested in the world. You know what I mean. Like interested in learning and adventurous and curious, 'cause that's what I am. He has to be passionate about something. And it would be nice if he had a job. It's not like he has to have an MBA.”

Ifs Knows Men World Mean Would Be Able Jobs Causes Black Nice Communication Ideals Passionate Curious Characteristics Being Nice Adventurous Good Communication Mba

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.”

Character Sound Voice Attitude Rhythm Physicality

Author:Dana Carvey

“My characters always like themselves.”

Author:Amy Sedaris

“My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.”

Wells Done Character Beautiful Fall Courses Husband Wealthy My Husband Falling Apart Leaving Me Happy Marriage Everything Falls Apart

Author:Carole Bouquet

“My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.”

Character Smart Admirable

Author:Michael Lewis

“My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.”

People Ifs Knows Character Might Happens Dark Deep Dark

Author:Nathan Lowell

“My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.”

People Kind Book Character All Kinds Comic Conventions Comic Book Geek Gaming Archetype

Author:Ernest Cline

“My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.”

Character Literature Spotlight

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.”

Character Sympathetic

Author:Donal Logue

“My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.”

Character Desire Justice Passionate Driven Rebellious Passionate Desire

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“My characters are galley slaves.”

Character Slave

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.”

Men Real Character Hands Hate Break Civilization Red Skins Lust Rough Rude Belly Apes Real Men Roaring

Author:Robert E. Howard

“My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.”

Trying Ends Character Lost Doors Opening Heroic

Author:Gaspar Noe

“My characters are not plastic.”

Character Plastic

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.”

People Real Reason Character Company Known Subjects Loneliness Plenty Reason Why

Author:William S. Burroughs

“My characters are usually composites. I wish I could pretend that I make up all of these characters, but no. I steal from people. But people will say to me, "Oh, that's me!" and I'm thinking, no, that's not you!”

People Thinking Character Wish Stealing

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“My characters come from a good place.”

Character Good Place

Author:Seth Rogen

“My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.”

Art Whole Character Artist Ignorance Definitions Zone Impotence

Author:Samuel Beckett

“My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.”

Ifs Character Given Scene Thrown Auditions

Author:Elmore Leonard

“My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Character Artist Process Alive Color Details Simplification

Author:Joan Miro

“My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.”

People Ifs Long Book Real Character Long Time My Family Tables Dinner Dinner Table

Author:Judy Blume

“My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.”

Character Together Dies Views Goes On Survival Conservative Rage Scream Conservatism Back Together

Author:Jane Smiley

“My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in the course of my writing is weave a thematic arc of fulfillment. It is my constant theme as a creator.”

Writing Character Purpose Courses Loss Emotion Constant Creator Fulfillment Theme Arcs Thematic

Author:Vera Nazarian

“My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.”

Real Character Reality Seems Pain My Own Research

Author:Charles de Lint

“My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.”

Littles Character Desire Trouble

Author:Jane Austen

“My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people”

People Ifs Giving Writing I Can Real Character Literature Advice My Friends Surprise Surprise Me

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.”

Writing Character Running Certain Gone Bed Excitement Traps

Author:Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.”

People Character Joy Regret Looking Back

Author:Peter Orner

“My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.”

Ifs Way Character Happens Fighting Loss Stations Surprising Wounded Resourceful

Author:Tom Barbash

“My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character.”

Writing Character

Author:Thomm Quackenbush

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?”

Humans Character Seems Desire Bits One Thing Mad Addiction Appearance Driven Stability Being Human Obsessive Grotesque Normalcy

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.”

Knows Writing Mind Character Incredibles Details

Author:Paul Auster

Source: Conversations with Paul Auster

“My charge's wife swept in, set some clean towels on the love seat, went rushing back out again. The stacked towels toppled off the love seat. All but one. The fallen towels landed in a heap of plastic detritus from his various medications, near a set of fresh, folded pajamas, which he now would never wear, and a stack of books he now would never read. Everything in the room was touched with the chaos that disrupted the operating energy of a household at such a time and showed that, all along, the appearance of control had been an illusion.”

Death Dying Control Everyday Life Housekeeping

Author:George Saunders

Source: Vigil

“My charge, then, in putting down my pen, and giving over this work to posterity, is this: Take the time. Take the time to preserve the stories, the photographs, the small mementos that mean so much. This is your legacy to future generations. Give it the attention it deserves. Your children and your grandchildren will thank you for it.”

Stories Legacy Posterity Family History Genealogy Future Generations Photographs Preserve Heirlooms Mementos

Author:Laurence Overmire

Source: One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants