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“I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.”

Wells Character Known Fine Suits Well Known

“I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.”

Ifs Want Looks Character Actors Fine Casts Character Actors Sidekicks

“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.”

Ifs Firsts Two Character Waiting Lines Fine Glances

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.”

Ifs Men Character Body Fine Worship Shining Gods Will Preserves Charm

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“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.”

People Important Country Character Fall President Ability Common Virtue Fine Judgment Approach Argument Congress Common Sense Complexity Distinction Decency American Character

Author:Dick Gephardt

“But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.”

Play Character Fine Higher Mets And Love Intelligent Mathematics Surprise Delight Proof Relief Modesty Life And Love Fragility Matched Auburn Fragility Of Life

Author:John Heilpern

“I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.”

Art Ideas Character Seems Sea Dangerous Objects Fine Art Is Sail Fine Arts

Author:Grayson Perry

“I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.”

Character Stories Use Color Fine

Author:Vincente Minnelli

“I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Wells Play Character Left Comedy Wife Written Worst Fine Critics Foolish Wit Tone Our Time Merry Distinctive Dreary Coarse

Book:Dramatic Essays

Source: Dramatic Essays

“I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.”

Said Character Fun Building Fine Miserable Character Building

Author:Diana Krall

“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).

“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”

Doe Character Feelings Bigs Individual Understanding Fine Jealousy Generous Reverse

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.”

Men Should Wells Character Shows Quality Fine Fool Bounds Defects Hypocrite Mistrust

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.]”

Art Character Fine Wheels Clay Glowing

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.”

Character Lines Fine Cartoon Fine Lines

Author:Steven Pasquale

“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”

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Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul”

Humans Book Soul Character Together Past Humanity Bits Stage Fine Civilization Newspapers Clothings Human Soul Scrap Rags Past And Present

Book:Twelve Major Plays

Source: Twelve Major Plays

“One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.”

Ifs Feels Whole Character Film Actors Process Perfect Fine Theater Indian Casting Bollywood

Author:Deepa Mehta

“I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.”

Ifs World Want Two Character Reality Would Be Film Fine Performances Bigger Independent Enjoyed If I Could Explosions Blast Independent Film Great Character Pathos Great Performance

Author:Matthew Lillard

“Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.”

Want Character Action Games Easy Fine Setting Settings Suspense Floating

Author:Lee Child

“In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.”

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.”

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Author:Colin Hay

“I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.”

People Ifs Thinking Different Play Character Fine Presses Comment Stem Departure Darcy

Author:Colin Firth

“That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.”

Giving Kind Stills Enough Character Able Fiction Fine Balance Surprise Artistic Fiction Writers

Author:Alan Lightman

“I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.”

People Want I Can Real Character Happened Fine Real Life Journalist

Author:Richard Shepard

“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.”

Humans Doe Character Feelings Lost Chance Emotion Path Sea Fine Type Normal Fruit Deeds Practicals Resolve Resolution Dreamer Concrete Sensibility Manly Hinder Discharge

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.”

“Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.”

Ifs Character Stories Action Interesting Comedy Fine Drama Sci Fi Compelling

Author:Jensen Ackles

“If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.”

Ifs Play Character Shows Trouble Fine Ensemble

Author:Jamie Farr

“The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think that our script is the bible. We want to make sure that the story is told, that you stick to the story but if you have to make changes to the character then that's fine. A lot of times there are some funny one-liners, funny things that happen that are out of the ordinary. I like it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Character Stories Happens Actors Fine Ordinary Sticks Scripts Making Changes Funny Things One Liner Funny One Liner

Author:Todd Farmer

“You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.”

Knows Men Kind Different Character Problem Guy Strong Interesting Powerful Rich Plans Fine Different Kinds Mice Bad Guys Good Guy Interesting Characters Best Laid Plans

Author:Tobin Bell

“I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.”

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Author:Hal Duncan

“I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”

Art Character Fine Surprise Drawing Incessantly Sketching True Character Fine Day

Book:Camille Pissarro

Source: Camille Pissarro

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