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“Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.”

Ifs Character Stories Love Is Attention Letting Go Victim Villain

Book:Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.”

Kind Ends Character Difficult Letting Go Finding Yourself Routine Define You Daily Routines

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.”

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Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.”

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Author:Emily Giffin

“It took a very long time to really enjoy an audition, and to get in the room and do the best that I can. I've just been deeply grateful for my career, and that the love for the work and the characters is alive still. I try to let go of the armor as much as possible and not be afraid.”

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Author:Ann Dowd

“I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't take up a life of its own, and the characters can't take up a life of their own. You handicap the story when you try to protect your characters.”

Trying Character Honest Protect Letting Go

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“I guess it's a pretty common experience while making a movie. You have to let go of the result and just hang on to the experience and the process, where each role takes you to a different country, as it were: You're shipwrecked on this new island, you have no clothes, you have to figure out how you're going to live in this new character. All of that turns me on.”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.”

“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.”

Character Past Spiritual My Own Behinds Personality Letting Go Aging Good Character Forging Leaving The Past

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.”

“By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.”

Character Emotion Virtue Emotional Healthy Letting Go Soil Defects Drains Swamps Sprouts Diseased Defects Of Character

Author:Ray Allen

“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.”

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Author:Tim Wynne-Jones

“If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let go and let God take them over, we would all know what it was to experience harmonious living.”

Ifs Knows Life Character Our Lives Letting Go Negative Overcoming Live Life Harmonious Let Go And Let God

Author:Albert E Cliffe