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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.
James D. Watson
Character
Will
Superior
Young
Sense
Assume
Honestly
Ways
Promise
Tells
Would
Find
Give
Seizing
Could
Knew
Couples
How
Scientists
Greatly
Improve
Offspring
Human
Common
Stopping
Common Sense
Happily
Public
Capabilities
Them
Decline
Us
Should
Why
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
James E. Gunn
Nature
Character
Technology
Change
Science
People
Universe
Responding
Characters
See
Environment
Fail
Readers
Science Fiction
How
Caused
Want
Fiction
Which
Cope
Present
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
James Fenimore Cooper
Character
Man
Will
Mediocrity
Other
All-Around
Never
He
Individuality
Him
Around
Existence
Greatness
Than
Any
Common
Dependent
Which
Who
Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
James Frain
Character
Sometimes
Bad
Guy
He
True
True Blood
Like
Know
Blood
Who
Fun
Played
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
James Frain
Time
Character
You
Space
Focus
Pressure
Characters
Structure
More
Network
Cable
Development
Along
Go
Time And Space
Different
Series
Shows
Forney in 'Where the Heart Is' has more fans than any other character I've played.
James Frain
Character
Heart
Fans
Other
More
Than
Any
Where
Played
We knew we'd never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.
James Frank
Character
Seen
Our
Find
Someone
Never
Knew
Idea
Ideal
Name
Toyed
Him
Rock
Get
Just
Which
While
Creating
Hard
Letting
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
James Gandolfini
Character
People
Men
Lost
Mafia
Pounds
Take
Feel
Mexican
Skinny
Play
Thin
Right
I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
James Gandolfini
Character
Me
Will
Think
Bit
Mafia
Bother
Because
Get
Want
Again
Little
Little Bit
Personally
Away
Violence
Starting
Scooby's the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn't cute like Mickey or smart like Bugs or fearless like Woody and Buzz - he's a talking dog who's more human than I am. It's his humanity and imperfections that make him special.
James Gunn
Character
Humanity
Dog
Smart
Cute
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Fearless
More
Imperfections
He
Like
Make
Him
Bugs
Talking
Greatest
Am
His
Than
Mickey
Human
Woody
Special
Ever
Buzz
I would say the main thing is, don't just copy yourself, which is what a lot of sequels do. And in some cases, it works. Like James Bond movies. But James Bond is a different type of character.
James Gunn
Character
Yourself
Type
Say
Would
Some
Cases
Main
Main Thing
Like
Lot
Just
Different
James
James Bond
Which
Movies
Sequels
Works
Different Type
Thing
Bond
Copy
Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.
James Heckman
Work
Character
Together
Those
Inseparable
More
Wiser
Make
Learn
Motivated
Children
Dynamic
Informed
Decisions
Work Together
Skills
Who
Cognitive
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.
James Howard Kunstler
Life
Nature
Character
Change
Quality
Will
Building
Living
Ought
Settlements
Our
Ruining
Destroying
Must
Civic
Scatter
Over
Like
Countryside
Towns
Building Blocks
Go
Blocks
Human
Where
Decide
Organisms
Farmland
Grow
Growth
Living Organisms
When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.
James L. Brooks
Character
Gay
You
Months
Spent
Never
Wrote
Because
Friend
Questions
Six
Just
Just Because
Ask
Asked
Asking
Asking Questions
Right
I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity.
James Lafferty
Nature
Character
Backgrounds
Say
Draw
Easy
Similar
Similarity
Both
Had
Like
Very
Different
Biggest
Us
Really
Acting
Competitive
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.
James Lafferty
Nature
Character
People
Nice
Despite
TV
Would
Would-Be
Guy
Know
Am
Shocked
Nice Guy
Actually
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
James Lapine
Good
Character
Change
Strange
People
World
Nothing
Waters
Say
Musicals
Easy
People Say
Magic
Seem
Seeming
Scene
Maneuver
Rewrite
Rhythm
Shorten
Strange World
Many
Shows
Why
Thing
Adapt
I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.
James Marsden
Life
Myself
Character
Seen
Real Life
Character Actor
See
More
Could
Never
Weirdly
Suppose
Always
Fake
Am
Real
Suave
Been
James
James Bond
Certainly
Actor
Bond
Playing
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy
Character
You
Other
Favorite
Jobs
Liked
Also
Got
Get
Children
Loved
Literature
Which
Really
Play
Playing
Chance
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
James McAvoy
Love
Character
Conflict
Every
Think
Entirely
Because
Doing
Very
Human
Internal
Based
Ever
Played
Basically
I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.
James McAvoy
Good
Character
Opportunity
Awesome
Good Opportunity
Favourite
He
Because
Did
Children
Wanted
Really
Play
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James Monroe
Character
People
Obligation
Free
Free People
Sacred
Most
Impose
Public
Them
Taxes
Require
Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
James Nesbitt
Character
Dark
Something
Lead
Put
Masks
Idea
Like
Attracted
Also
Occasions
Within
May
Decent
Different
Want
Us
Much
Lives
Played
For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
James Norton
Great
Character
Yourself
Distant
Very
Privilege
Any
Actor
Play
You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.
James Norton
Time
Character
You
Field
Want
Who
Whole
Even
Playing
Playing Field
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
James Q. Wilson
Character
Crime
Society
Abandoning
Price
Pays
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