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“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Character Song Term Creating Theme Visuals Transfers Soundtracks Creating Characters

Author:Marisha Pessl

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

Knows Looks Kind Sometimes Play Character Fun Enjoy Worry Comedy Too Much Risk Deluded Physical Comedy Worrying Too Much

Author:Amy Poehler

“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

Knows Sometimes Character Moving Young Waiting Water Wife Fronts Instance Farms Yards Moving Away

Author:Ron Rash

“Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.”

People Sometimes Character Challenges Independent Scripts Compelling

Author:Brittany Snow

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.”

Sometimes Character Bigs Decision Stage Design Scene Scales I've Learned Illustration Overcrowding

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.”

People Sometimes Character Evil Term Blanket Demonic

Author:David Morrissey

“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

“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

“Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.”

Needs Different Sometimes Character Actors Boundaries Admire Characteristics Different Things

Author:Bonnie Wright

“Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different”

Two Different Sometimes Matter Character Form Concepts Property Wave Obvious Remarkable Radiation Particles Duality Exhibits

Book:The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Source: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

“The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what all of your characters think at the same time. Sometimes one of my characters overrules one of my other characters. I'm trying to get them all to harmonize. It's a hell of a job. It's like driving a coach.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Sometimes Hard Character Jobs Acting Hell Skins Coaches Driving

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.”

Sometimes Character Dresses Mistress Maids

Author:St. Jerome

“The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. I'm interested in female friendships, and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.”

Thinking Writing Book Sometimes Character Stories Romance Hero Female Love Story Traditional Heroines Female Friendship Family Relationship Friendship And Family

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.”

Writing Trying Sometimes Character Happens Strong Female Males Hopefully Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female Strong Character

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.”

Want Stills Book Ideas Sometimes Character Talking Clear Calling Pages Fifty Sixty

Author:Joan Didion

“I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.”

Way Sometimes Character Names Inspired

Author:William Gibson

“The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's difficult for me to say to the people, "Don't be angry." When people are angry and enraged, they do do senseless things. They do act even sometimes out of character, and that's why it is the responsibility of America to try and avoid putting people in these kinds of situations.”

People Trying Kind Sometimes Character America Difficult Responsibility Situation Angry Evening Los Angeles Righteous Righteous Anger

Author:Maxine Waters

“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

“Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.”

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight of why they are telling the story. They don't let the characters actually speak. Characters will start to dictate the story in sometimes surprising, emotional, and funny ways. If the writers are not open to those surprises, they're going to strangle the life, spark, or spirit out of their work.”

Ifs Way Book Sometimes Character Stories Spirit Speak Loses Worry Emotional Sight Surprise Comic Plot Sparks Surprising Comic Book

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“I think bringing depth to characters means really needing to find out who this girl is, what is she passionate about, what makes her tick, what gets her going in life. So I did a lot of backstory for who she was and sometimes it comes across screen and sometimes it doesn't. You never know, because you're not the director, but you can only do your work and hope that it somehow subtly is infiltrated in that. But I think the characters I've played for the most part have depth, just not in the way that you think they do.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Sometimes Character Girl Directors Depth Passionate Screens Tick This Girl

Author:Amy Smart

“Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.”

Feels Sometimes Character Bigs Life Is Grows Growing Up Basketball Machines Fortune Islands Toms Fortune Teller Coney Island

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.”

Way Want Trying Book Sometimes Character Stories Problem Dream Memories Forget Brain Figures Like You Solve Capture Mixtures Good Book Our Memories Hallucinations Archetype I Like You

Author:Ali Banisadr

“Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.”

Sometimes Character Three Actors Four Week Months Credit Spending Lead In Character Actors

Author:Steve Buscemi

“For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there.”

Book Ideas Sometimes Character Stories Events Currents No Idea Discussion Topics Current Events

Author:Sandra Brown

“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”

Giving Sometimes Character Stories Turns Grows Walks Birth Hero Familiar Bridges Twists Here And There Twists And Turns

Book:Blood Red, Snow White: n/a

Source: Blood Red, Snow White: n/a

“The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.”

Sometimes Character Facts Seems Wedlock

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.”

“I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.”

Sometimes Character Interest Loses Animal Tree

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.”

Men Mean Art Sometimes Whole Character Able Opportunity Higher Integrity Advantage Bravery Openness Cunning Miscarriage

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.”

Sometimes Character Might Temper Favour Resolute

Book:Northanger Abbey: A Novel

Source: Northanger Abbey: A Novel

“Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.”

Sometimes Character Feelings Causes Effects Mood Prose Cause And Effect

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.”

Way Kind Sometimes Character Film Song Watches Music Is Backgrounds Conventional Background Music

Author:Wes Anderson

“Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.”

Heart Different Sometimes Character

Author:Hilary Swank

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