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“For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?”

Looks Important Character Actors Ability Important Things Converses

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

Thinking Writing Trying Character Ability Vacation Sensibility Another Time

Author:Ron Rash

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Character Stories Body Ability Judgment Mark Hearing Smell Actresses Louisiana

Author:Rebecca Wells

“The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.”

Character Wisdom Ability Secret Silence Wise Capacity

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.”

People Way Giving Mean Character Sin Ability Principles Kindness Humility Involved One Way Motive Strength Of Character Getting Along

Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.”

Way Character Given Ability Consistent Cheat Athletic Athletic Ability

Author:Justin Gatlin

“My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.”

People Character Ability Mark Adversity Crisis Again And Again Tenacity Bounce

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.”

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Author:Karl Marlantes

“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Looks Character Happens Certain Ability Rooms Conflict Gun Fairs Machines Smell Inevitable Minors Creeps Entropy Machine Guns My Fair Lady

Author:Adam Rapp

“In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.”

Has Beens Sometimes Character Government Ability Situation Known Office Aim Consideration Appointments Great Office

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Character Jobs Film Actors Ability Fit Theater Musical Definitions Accomplished Framework Musical Theater

Author:Anton Yelchin

“Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.”

Giving Persons Different Character Ability Acting

Author:Robin Williams

“I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.”

“The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.”

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.”

People Long Character Dark Ability Compassion Situation Insight Wit Tenderness Probing

Author:Dan Chaon

“When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.”

Character Belief Given Ability Decision Conviction Outcomes

Author:Karl Rove

“And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.”

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Author:Matthew Modine

“Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.”

“The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.”

Ifs Thinking Men Country States Character Ability Doubt Judging Lows South Fallen Disgrace Benches Judiciary Federal Judges

Author:William Howard Taft

“One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.”

Persons Character Ability Information Standards Praise

Author:Augustus Hare

“You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.”

Character Growth Ability Television Arcs

Author:Marc Maron

“We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.”

Want Believe Important Character Age Wish Ability Telling The Truth Carpet Narrators Manipulative

Author:Anne Lamott

“Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.”

Men Character Individual Loses Ability Destructive Prosecution

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.”

Writing Believe Character Ability Novel Mood Gothic Hinges Success Or Failure

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.”

People Way Trying Heart Character Passion Interest Ability Deals Acting Stage My Heart Mark Artistic My Passion

Author:Angela Bassett

“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.”

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Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.”

People Thinking Knows Way Humans Different Real Character Action Film Ability Clear Expression Flawed Animated Action Movie Uncomplicated Animated Films

Author:Steve Martin

“Working in television it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it. You have more time, more room, an ability to reflect on your performance and the character and how much has really been shown, and what you'd like to see. It's nice. You have more breathing room.”

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Author:Christina Ricci

“In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.”

Ifs Matter Play Character Shows Ability Effort Best Effort

Author:Joo Won

“He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts himself last and helps the common good. So he could easily slip into a world of boredom, The blessing and curse of Captain America is that he doesn't have that fancy an ability. He doesn't live in another world, or turn green. He doesn't have bells and whistles, he doesn't shoot missiles. He punches and kicks.”

“Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.”

Want Character Ability Noble Strength Of Character Do Whatever You Want

Book:Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star

Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star

“I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later, if you don't take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Humans Looks Important Play Character Inspiration Human Beings Ability Youth Regret Development Advantage

Author:Nina Dobrev

“At some level, you've got to have the ability to - especially in film and in front of the camera, you got to have the ability to drop into character and close off the entire crew and the camera and everything else.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.”

People Ifs Thinking Character Hands Simple Ability Special Design Relate Animation Character Design

Author:Tomm Moore

“As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.”

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Author:Sophie Barthes

“Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.”

Ifs Hard Character Winning Ability Powerful Talent Hard Work Determination Roots Combination Talents And Abilities

Author:Erwin McManus

“When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about.”

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Author:Michael Flutie

“To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.”

People Firsts May War States Character Government Political Ability Situation Enemy Effects Resources Opposites Regard Aim Evaluate Gauges

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.”

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