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“Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.”

Character Seems Compromise Artistic Minors Impatient

Author:Charles Rosen

“To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.”

Kind Reason Character Forget Goodness Highest Aim Right Thing Improving Forget It

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.”

Thinking Mean Character Today Worry Havens Relation Twenties Plot

Book:Howard Hawks: Interviews

Source: Howard Hawks: Interviews

“I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.”

Two Different Character Stories Names Directors Towns Guarantees Character Change

Author:Howard Hawks

“I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.”

World Way Should Character Wanted Strong Female Very Strong Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Elizabeth Hand

“We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.”

Knows Years Children Made Character Unique Our Children Excitement

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”

People Ifs Mind Character Stories Actors Stars Differences Acting Roles Majors Conclusion Stardom

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.”

Needs Stills Character Effort Watches Accomplish Stillness Minimum Hopkins

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.”

Ifs Mean Character Novel Deserve Female Flow Males

Author:Jane Smiley

“Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.”

“It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world.”

People World Long Country Hard Character Spirit Inspired Driving Canada Devoted Great Country Marching On Bumpy Roads

Author:Stompin' Tom Connors

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”

Men Feels Years Character Left Generations Youth College Delight Debt Association Payment Fraternity Younger Generation Formative Years

Author:Newton D. Baker

“I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.”

Men World Believe Character I Believe Born Ideals Perfection Every Man

Book:Heart of Man

Source: Heart of Man

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Character Wonder Written Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Marilyn Manson

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.”

Knows Character Seems Language Sound Pages Plot Rude Juvenile Adverbs

Author:Colum McCann

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

Men Way May Different Character Hands Might Spirit Turns Source Built Agony Fabric Humiliation Straws

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.”

Ifs Thinking Should Character Problem Action Plot

Author:Zoe Kazan

“You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.”

Character Stories Talking

Author:Zoe Kazan

“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.”

Character Reader Gay Assumption Irrelevant

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!”

Firsts I Can Character Remember Games Can Do Lines Boys Four Type Toys Really Great Tigers I Can Do It Jake Trivia Toby

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.”

Men Years Character Father Nations United Integrity United Nations Reproach Impeccable

Author:Kojo Annan

“You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.”

Ifs Want Character Loses Successful Being Successful Animation Losing Yourself

Author:Lucille Bliss

“I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.”

Thinking Way Doe Real Character Fields Real Life Athletic

Author:Peter M. Brant

“I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.”

Want Mind Play Character Roles

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.”

People Thinking Want I Can Character Can Do Rocks Jokes Screens Persona Over The Top Endearing Ranting And Raving

Author:Billy Eichner

“Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.”

Writing Character Actors Brilliant Combination Great Character

Author:Brad Falchuk

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.”

Knows Character Pet Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Glenn Howerton

“For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.”

Two Play Character Opportunity Challenges Let Me

Author:Omari Hardwick

“When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.”

Ifs Knows Writing Character Actors Projects Approach Lists Standpoint Adjectives

Author:Omari Hardwick

“At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.”

Ends Character Humanity The End Of The Day

Author:Russell Hornsby

“The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.”

Character Artist

Author:Russell Hornsby

“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.”

People Knows Way Ideas Character Difficult Circumstances Who You Are Tested Difficult Circumstances

Author:Erich Hoeber

“It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.”

Persons I Can Character Strong Strong Character

Author:Reese Hoffa

“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.”

Real Character Actors Black White Roles Pages Scripts Unexpected Black And White Translate Real Character Something Unexpected

Author:Joe Johnston

“It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.”

People Way Littles Made Character Home Simple Towns Accidents Characteristics Village Cartoon Eccentric Puppets Home Town

Author:William Jackson

“The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.”

People Character My Own Known Personality Degrees Aspect Combination Dirty Dragons Chicago Good Friend Puppets Indianapolis My Own Personality

Author:William Jackson

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

Want Firsts Littles Two Character Night Actors Prayer Laughing Five Minutes Stage Demand Starting Stakes Broadway Five Minutes Exit Starting Out

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Done Character Fun Findings Fifteen Fifteen Years Cabaret Finding Myself

Author:Faith Prince

“A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!”

Way Different Character Feelings Life Is Personality Bugs Get Real Really Sad

Author:Booboo Stewart

“It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.”

Character Existence Mysterious Impressive Avid Fictional Character

Author:Ben Thompson

“In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.”

Want Needs Children Character Shows Age Tvs Ten My Family Casts Desperate Good Times Pennies Sitcom Abused Children

Book:True You

Source: True You

“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Long Book Character Dream Novel Know How Air Towns Breaths Never Quit Undone Unwritten Hovering Book Of Disquiet Prologue

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.”

Important Character Forget Emotion Novel Intelligent Medicine Never Forget Entertaining Centre

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.”

Character Taught Bed Ambition Connections Intimate Traits Psychoanalysis Taught Us Character Trait

Book:The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

Source: The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

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