Characterization Quotes

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way. Margaret Atwood
People Way Characterization Never Bought Individuals Particular Particular Way Sort Yes Expected Any Going May Mean Hard Fast
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophical Consists Characterization General Safest Tradition European Series Plato
My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot. Andrea Seigel
Entertainment Reality Feeling Few Guilty Characterization Plot TV Remaining Permitted Ironic Which Modes Reality TV Apologetic Popular
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership. Andreas Schleicher
Work Leadership Job Long Pay Despite Summers Characterization Easy Some Cases Fact Long Hours Support Hours Insufficient Off Short Little Successful Teachers Dedicated Teaching Many
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. Brent Weeks
People Sometimes Characterization Characters Compliment About Sort Real Yes Model Real People After Asked Skills
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. Daniel Keys Moran
Me Will Somebody Nothing Down Else Characterization Tell About Someone Write Attempt Soon Want
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker
Drama Dramatic Pleases Characterization Attains Reach Makes Revelation Dialogue Conduct Itself Human Literature Which Play
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker
Playwright Dramatic Pleasure Adequate Characterization Memorable Impersonate Instinct Dialogue Provide Itself Literature Produces Actor Desire
Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States. Jorge Ramos
Ignorance States Characterization Immigrants About Only Facts Absurd Well Course Demonstrate His Trump Mexican Undocumented Prejudiced Views Deep United United States
The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. Indirect may not be a full characterization of the way it is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military. Joseph Dunford
Work Google Military Benefit Benefiting Way Characterization Direct More Indirect Indirectly Doing May China Chinese Full
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain. Justin Cronin
Sunshine Hero Beauty Characterization Stroke Some Brush Dirt Put Theory Villain Basically
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for. Nic Pizzolatto
Work Rich Resonant Characterization Guise Details Detective Layered Mystery True True Detective Genre Shoot Forms
For me, 'The Hobbit' is an object lesson in storytelling, both in terms of characterization and story structure. It is an exemplar of storytelling in that regard. Paul S. Kemp
Me Lesson Characterization Object Structure Both Terms Hobbit Regard Story Storytelling
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect. Peter Blair Henry
Me Wife Think Characterization Would Objection Perfect Take Any
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles. Robert J. Sawyer
Art Science Negligible Characterization Rightly Criticized Unbelievable Having Write Studied Most Principles Science Fiction Often Fiction Psychological Psychology Either Which Hard Actually
Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to learn more about everyone in the process. Sabaa Tahir
Great Me Matter Everyone Characterization Characters About Examine Entirely More Points Allowing Learn Different Process Perspectives View Different Perspectives Multiple Novels
When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization. Stacey Abrams
Writing Characterization Structure Perfect Aristotle Tension Roberts Learn Read How Began Sustain Novels Pearl
The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a solo ongoing. Whether or not they're named Captain America or Ruby Thursday matters less to me than whether or not their characterization is consistent and actions logical... storytelling concerns. Stuart Immonen
Me Logical Matters Ruby Consistent Characterization Solo Ongoing Thursday Named Concerns Than America Different Story Whether Storytelling Requirements Less Captain Captain America Actions Illustrating
I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another. Suzanne Farrell
Style Dramatic Extreme Characterization Like Particularly Another Ballets Go Which Chance
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it. Tom Hanks
You Learning Natural Physics Feelings Become Own Marks Characterization Out About Something Self Part Self-Consciousness Maintain Lights Make Learn How Suspend Movie Afternoon Etc Your Hard Figure Now Actor Consciousness
From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds. Werner Arber
Natural School Made First Isolation Year Research Seconds Characterization Diploma Studied Contacts Study Towards New Half-Life Sciences Natural Sciences Working Swiss Fundamental Last Last Year
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Art Integrity Will Master Pleasure Characterization Record Classics Never Studied Never Forget True Instruction Robinson Surely His Versatility Edward Forget Modern Artistic Working Derived

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