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“Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.”

Writing Made Character Born Exercise Flesh Free Will Volition Fictional Character

Author:John Banville

“A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.”

Character Fiction Novel Fate Failing Exercise Concerned Mere Narrative Interiors Adaptation Decoration Inconvenient Great Novels

Author:Richard Schickel

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”

Ifs Men May Self Character Hours Quality Influence Example Position He Man Masters Exercise Disregard

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.”

Art Hard Character Understanding Interest Exercise Taste Art Is Affection Gentleman Unemployed Liberal Arts

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.”

Should Trying Character Power Exercise Extremes

Book:Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

Source: Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

“The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.”

Source: Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography

“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

“The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.”

Humans May Made Character Sound Imagination Exercise Virtuous Cultivation

Author:John Abercrombie

“Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.”

People Thinking Made Character Humanity Quality Exercise Degrees Dignity Manners Titles Good Man Stamps Transport Good Manners Genealogy Good Nature Haughtiness

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Understand and apply this vital principle to your life: Your exercise of faith builds character. Fortified character expands your capacity to exercise greater faith. Thus, your confidence in making correct decisions is enhanced. And the strengthening cycle continues. The more your character is fortified, the more enabled you are to exercise the power of faith for yet stronger character.”

Character Decision Principles Greater Exercise Capacity Stronger Cycles Strengthening

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.”

Thinking Writing Character Stories Exercise Intellectual Inches

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.”

Way Giving Writing Important Character Stories Mother Reading Stuff Growth Students Exercise Paper Sooner Or Later Veins Worth Reading

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.”

Thinking Looks I Can Ideas Character Audience Exercise Offers Experiments Relate Genre Great Character

Author:Ron Howard

“The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes, or problems, or ideas. But those are actually things that develop out of characters, out of images and out of other things. These more abstract things develop while working on the material, and out of it. It's not a theoretical exercise from the outset.”

Made Ideas Character Problem Film Trouble Materials Exercise Criticism Impression Abstract Theme Theoretical

Author:Michael Haneke

“When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.”

“I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.”

Writing Character Use Language Exercise Regard Obsessed Investigation Use Of Language

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.”

Knows Want Giving Character Helping Jobs Actors Lines Emotional Exercise Taste Scene Directors Judgment Performances Statements Taste And Judgment

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”

“I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.”

Looks Character Audience One Thing Fronts Exercise Scene Pages Cameras Historical Authenticity Delving

Author:Gary Cole

“At the end of the day, I really go with my personal taste and with what's on the page in terms of character. But beyond that, there's a complexity about the scripts I tend to respond to. I've not lost my curiosity about how the world functions. And a script that can embody that and thematically explore bigger questions in a way which seems fresh is likely to get my attention. Frankly, I also have an eye for what will appeal to an audience, as opposed to a self-indulgent exercise that isn't taking the audience into account.”

World Character Eye Term Attention Audience Exercise Curiosity Complexity

Author:Carmen Ejogo

“Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.”

Character Interest Exercise

Author:Errol Morris

“People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to switch from one to another as much as you can. I've found out that when I have trouble regarding any character or any particular scene in English, sometimes I'll switch to Spanish and I'll solve the problem that I've encountered. If I'm working in Spanish and I don't know how to approach certain scenes or certain emotions, or how to say this and that, I just switch to English to try to solve it that way and it works.”

People Trying Sometimes Character Problem Language Emotion Brain Trouble Exercise Scene

Author:Demian Bichir

“It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.”

Character Audience Exercise Tough Screens Restraint Flexible Tricky

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

“The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.”

Thinking Way Writing Firsts Character Reading Literature Mistake Brain Air Rocks Exercise Draws Oneself Gentle Good Literature

Author:Virginia Woolf

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