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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
Strength
Suffering
Out
Characters
Emerged
Scars
Strongest
Most
Massive
Souls
Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne Dyer
Life
Good
Move On
Others
Otherwise
Several
Enter
Characters
Embrace
Some
Guys
Like
Roles
Move
Short
Them
Much
Next
Act
Your
Who
Villains
Acts
Larger
Play
Necessary
Good Guys
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom
Opportunity
Word
Other
Danger
Crisis
Characters
Composed
Written
Represents
Chinese
Two
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
Good
Man
Intelligence
Enemies
Too
Good Looks
Characters
Looks
His
Friends
Cannot
Acquaintances
Choice
Choose
Careful
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams
Life
People
Strong
Desperate
Easier
Out
Characters
Strong People
Seemingly
Hysteria
Reach
Identify
Another
Verge
Were
Frightened
Person
Really
Who
Found
Fragile
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
Angelina Jolie
Myself
Happy
People
Being Myself
Before
Live
Other
Mine
Those
Hid
Out
Characters
Tried
Find
Through
Never
Always
Been
Being
Which
Lives
Things
I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.
Ashley Wagner
Music
Good
Me
Dark
Evil
Dark Side
Girl
Side
Way
Characters
Kind
Pretty
Strongest
Almost
Feel
Like
Princess
Because
Intense
Really
Bold
Aware
Good Girl
Necessarily
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'
Demetri Martin
Video Games
Alone
Me
You
Game
Man
Busy
Other
Hey
Characters
Super
Guy
Could
Hospital
Head
Performing
Like
Got
Leave
Surgery
Leave Me Alone
Very
Times
Died
Want
Which
Video
Video Game
Create
Shot
Games
Help
Who
Playing
Violent
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Character
People
Writing
Living
Caricature
Characters
Writer
Create
Should
Novel
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
People
Human Being
Skin
Living
Every
Other
Relate
Hundreds
Characters
Ability
Give
Writer
Talent
Names
Identities
Him
His
Human
Being
Personalities
Them
Separate
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
Mindy Kaling
Funny
Remember
Thought
Believe
Living
Kid
Characters
About
Haunted
Guy
He
Bought
Mortgage
Witch
House
Wrote
Him
Said
Were
Little
Them
Little Kid
Really
Paying
Who
Lived
Play
Mummy
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.
Regina Brett
Love
Victim
Too
Sympathy
Our
Characters
Must
Someone
Both
Invested
Attention
Go
Get
Often
Being
Story
Villain
Let Go
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams
Alone
You
Happy
Creativity
World
Young
Think
Imagination
Characters
Easy
Voices
Had
Developed
Liked
Because
Go
Very
Child
Childhood
Being
Being Alone
Place
Happy Childhood
Creating
Your
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.
Gordon Ramsay
Strong
Incredibly
Characters
Kitchens
Environments
Form
Hard
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Kate Winslet
Strength
Every
Think
Way
Possesses
Drawn
Characters
One Thing
Some
More
Obviously
Because
Always
Passionate
Person
Often
Experienced
Even
Element
Lives
Thing
Hardship
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
Samuel L. Jackson
Mistake
People
Overcome
Stronger
Rehab
Ourselves
Characters
About
Through
Come
Knowing
Make
How
Understood
Where
Creating
Means
Whole
Things
Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you're playing, the stories you're telling, and the people you're working with.
Ari Graynor
Work
Good
You
People
Good Work
Incredibly
Caring
Characters
Telling
About
Attached
Part
Doing
Doing Good
Getting
Stories
Working
Believing
Deeply
Playing
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Harold Pinter
Theatre
Political
Problems
Own
Disposition
Air
Characters
Must
Cost
Entirely
Objectivity
Allowed
His
Author
Taste
Essential
Confine
Different
Cannot
Them
Breathe
Prejudice
Avoided
Satisfy
Set
Presents
The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don't judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.
Henry Golding
You
People
Joy
Judge
Perspective
Films
Broad
Characters
See
Gives
Stereotypical
Cultures
Tasting
Different
Different Cultures
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
Ira Glass
You
Yourself
People
Too Much
Thinking
Too
Other
Tool
Dramatic
Machine
Characters
Logic
About
Emotion
Empathize
Empathy
Powerful
Over
Powerful Tool
Without
Contrast
Gets
Situations
Staged
Story
Much
Really
Reason
Sequence
Moments
Imagining
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
Maria Bamford
Me
Fear
Own
Characters
My Own
Voice
Through
Because
Said
Been
Irritating
Express
Things
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Mason Cooley
Books
Characters
Colorful
Outside
Avoid
Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films.
Mila Kunis
Life
Me
Women
Big
Real Life
Victim
Think
Films
Saved
Characters
Rarely
Attracted
How
Am
Real
Woe
Big Fan
Very
Times
Fan
Should
Necessarily
Need
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
Phil Hartman
Live
Characters
One Thing
Voices
Except
Could
Weird
Call
The One Thing
Really
Saturday
Thing
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato
Men
States
Out
Characters
Human
Grow
All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.
Stan Lee
Somebody
Nothing
Unless
Characters
Marvel
Could
Had
Ideas
Were
Meant
Who
Illustrate
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