Best source & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

Trying Different Enough Character Facts Process Subjects Source Surface Novelists Layers Questioning Reporters Observing Beneath The Surface

Author:Amy Waldman

“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

“If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.”

People Ifs Long Different Character Shows Form Numbers Materials Source Seasons Exciting Storytelling Mediums Hopefully Requirements

Author:Greg Bryk

“To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?”

Ifs Character Pleasure Source Utility

Book:The Rationale of Reward

Source: The Rationale of Reward

“Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.”

Character Turns Belief Religious Virtue Atheism Source Authority Endure Obedience Consistent Admiration Piety Religious Belief Obedience To Authority

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.”

Firsts Character Names Source Valuable Insight

Author:Spike Lee

“Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.”

“The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.”

People Needs Writing Believe Real Character Passion Opportunity Generations Source Personality Judgment Army Distance Available Officials Assessment Personality And Character

Author:Rick Atkinson

“The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.”

“We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).”

People Firsts Two Character Political Politics Information Judging Source

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise”

Whole Character Life Is Source Praise Profit Whole Life Thee

Author:Akhenaton

“I know I have a first-rate mind, but that`s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.”

People Knows Mind Firsts Character Source Pride Proud Intelligent Rate Dozen Dimes

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that character, but it was really cool because, as we were figuring these characters out, I realized that there was a lot more backstory, rather than what I had gotten just from reading the book. Glenn doesn't really get much of a backstory there. He's just seen as this kid who is put in this situation, not knowing where his mind-set is, but then you slowly see him start to develop.”

Mind Book Character Kids Wanted Reading Situation Knowing Fans Materials Source I Realized Not Knowing Really Cool Mind Set

Author:Steven Yeun

“They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.”

Years Book Play Character Stories Next Source Cold Hot Comic Genre Comic Book Colorful Hot And Cold

Author:Michael Uslan

“Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.”

“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.”

“You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.”

Way Years Different Character Form Actors Materials Source Compare Interpretation Holmes Watson Different Interpretations

Author:Jude Law

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