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In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Freedom
Invention
Think
Characters
General
Limited
Historical
Use
I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.
Mark Rylance
Great
Better
Energy
Stretched
Too
Mood
Mood Swings
Characters
Gymnast
Emotional
Like
Because
Got
Lot
Lots
Get
Maybe
Different
Different Characters
Swings
Whose
Playing
Muscles
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff
Time
You
Book
Words
Kiss
Fire
First
Overtime
Characters
Wearing
Neurons
No-One
Feels
Pictures
Like
Make
Read
First Time
How
Brain
Deciding
Your
Standing
Paints
Shows
Suggestions
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
Michael Zaslow
You
Way
Characters
Given
Point
Mysterious
Sure
Which
Might
Turn
Really
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
Mike Birbiglia
Characters
John
Shades
Mentor
Studied
Most
Always
Screenwriting
Interesting
Interesting Characters
Gray
If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.
Morris Gleitzman
Care
Beneath
Characters
About
Only
Because
Surface
Caught
Up
Get
Moved
Happen
Story
Started
I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.
Nicolas Cage
Good
Day
Home
Try
Relax
Characters
Pretty
Pretty Good
Ready
Gotten
Leaving
Go
Go Home
Next
Regroup
Set
The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.
Paul S. Kemp
Good
Mind
Evil
Whatever
Sense
Think
Bit
Characters
Good Reason
Rationalize
Push
Feel
Boundary
Makes
Doing
Infinite
Human
Short
Just
Justified
Capacity
Human Mind
Reason
I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
Philip Roth
Angry
Happy
Writing
Feeling
Characters
About
Sabbath
Write
Like
Doing
Mickey
Just
Being
I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there.
Rebecca Sugar
Love
People
Feeling
Feelings
Thinking
Those
Characters
Cartoon
Cartoon Characters
Look
Real
Just
Want
Fan
Really
Creator
Actually
Levels
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Richard Cecil
God
Great
History
Bible
Will
Characters
All Things
His
Up
The History Of
Acquainted
Sentence
Themselves
Things
I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.
Shemar Moore
Life
Truth
Saying
Character
Me
You
Own
Characters
Find
Able
Got
Am
Your
Bring
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
Siri Hustvedt
Character
Sympathy
Penetrate
Characters
Easy
Empathy
Make
Off
Very
Lack
Repugnant
Cut
Hard
Who
Damaged
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.
Stephan Pastis
Needs
Characters
Like
Also
Blind
Vulnerability
Spots
Themselves
Full
Who
Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
Sue Monk Kidd
Me
Giving
Important
Pain
Extremely
Characters
More
Voice
Boundaries
Make
How
Want
Social
Them
Create
Explore
Strata
Marginalised
I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my career, I've included realistic LGBT characters in my books. The idea that a gay Navy SEAL had to hide who he was in order to serve was a terrible one - and I made sure my readers knew that!
Suzanne Brockmann
Great
Gay
Women
Hide
Care
Great Deal
Made
Realistic
Honestly
Books
Characters
Able
About
Had
He
Knew
Idea
Since
Openly
Terrible
Readers
Sure
Deal
Being
Order
Seal
Who
Navy
Included
Serve
Servicemen
Early
Career
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Thomas Perry
Good
You
Signs
Good Person
Active
Virtues
Characters
Thriller
Unsavory
Most
Make
Refer
Person
Common
Predatory
Useful
Who
Novel
I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.
Tim Curry
Characters
Risky
Like
Parts
Audience
Necessarily
I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
Todd Haynes
Strong
Drawn
Characters
Female
Female Characters
Them
I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.
Tyga
Sometimes
Try
Everybody
Characters
Motives
Just
Different
Different Characters
Personalities
Different Personalities
Cool
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Victoria Abril
You
Age
Passion
Mask
Characters
Be Real
Fake
Real
Moves
Your
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
Walt Disney
Personality
Try
Build
Our
Characters
Cartoon
Cartoon Characters
Make
Personalities
Them
Full
Each
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord
Great
People
Sometimes
Matter
Heroes
Be Nice
Rich
Nice
Bastards
Indeed
Say
Characters
Would
Would-Be
Fact
Through
Noble
Come
Like
Well
Came
Off
Very
Privileged
Behave
Behaved
Fancy
Poor
Rich People
The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
Vincent D'Onofrio
You
Hide
Difficult
Characters
More
Known
Behind
We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
Xavier Dolan
You
People
Speak
Fears
Other
Way
Backgrounds
Defines
Complexes
Characters
See
Stem
Shapes
Talk
How
Hear
Hear People
Human
Different
Want
Human Beings
Different Backgrounds
Quote
Social
Them
Doubts
Strata
Beings
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
Douglas Coupland
Shopping
Trek
Characters
Never
Go
Star
Star Trek
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