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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself. Ang Lee

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Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive. Ang Lee

Design Summer Way Characters Make Blockbusters Go Effects Very Expensive Different Shots Certain Certain Way Film Things

I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time. Angela Bassett

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Radio means you can play parts that aren't based on your looks or your age. It's a lot of fun. You can do tremendous things - play more diverse characters - that you wouldn't get to do in theatre or TV. Anita Dobson

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I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days. Anita Shreve

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I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved. Ann Cleeves

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I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have! Ann Hood

One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible. Ann Leckie

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Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes. Ann Leckie

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In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes. Ann Leckie

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Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great. Ann Nocenti

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I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that. Ann Nocenti

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology. Ann Patchett

Technology World Google Lose Plot Characters Write Factual Head Know How Contrive Information Which Available Separated Stand Novel

When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to. Ann Turner

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As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting. Anna Gunn

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It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in. Anna Kendrick

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None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting. Anna Paquin

Me Characters Would Would-Be Boring Like None Really Acting Played

There's so much anxiety coming from social media with teenagers that we have to give them characters that are real and that are not always happy; and that have bad parents and not great, supportive parents; and that are not going on these journeys to save the world with a bow. Anna Todd

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I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know. Anna Todd

People Characters Would Write Feel Like Know

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique. Annaleigh Ashford

Love Ways Characters Finding Someone Make Familiar Unique

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