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Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan
Life
Time
Three
Life Is A
Progression
Characters
Tells
Arbitrary
Oneself
Feels
Like
Sort
Rhythmic
Much
Less
ESPN has so many characters, it's like 'The Simpsons.'
Frank Caliendo
Characters
Simpsons
Like
ESPN
The Simpsons
Many
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
Frank Deford
Good
Humor
Made
Before
Gone
Pain
Believe
Think
Out
Characters
One Thing
Arc
More
Tales
Also
Sport
Calls
Sportswriter
Territory
Doing
Fertile
Than
The One Thing
Literary
Hollywood
Largely
Ever
Thing
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
Frank Grillo
Love
Day
You
Love Is
Hero
Down
Back
Out
Characters
Archetypal
Deliverance
End
Upside
Upside Down
Pacifist
Turned
Film
Start
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Frank Miller
You
People
Virtue
Virtues
Defined
Characters
Having
Environment
Sin
Sinful
Operate
Without
How
Test
Very
After
Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.
Frank Oz
Hope
Great
Character
Made
Cowardly
Seven
Location
Characters
Finding
Some
Crosby
About
Guys
Road
Singapore
Always
Smooth
Were
Exotic
Lousy
America
Lovable
Dorothy
Movies
Bob
Fleeing
Cocky
Bing
Starting
It's normal that if you are working with a lot of people, then you have a lot of different mentalities and characters. You have the serious guy, and you have the one who is always complaining and the one who is always talking. Everyone is different.
Frank Rijkaard
You
People
Complaining
Everyone
Characters
Guy
Talking
Always
Normal
Lot
Different
Then
Working
Who
Serious
I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
Frank Welker
Attitude
Character
Me
Better
Looking
Tell
Characters
Visual
Seeing
Some
About
Someone
Having
More
Voice
Like
Always
Am
Up
Than
Them
Much
Works
Brings
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.
Franklin Foer
Business
People
Characters
He
Leaders
Partners
Vulnerabilities
Dubious
Always
Foreign
His
Trump
Up
Vet
Door
Whether
Business Partners
Show
Who
Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, 'It's not like that in the comics!' Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They're always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn't be an issue if the race changes for a character.
Franz Drameh
Time
Character
People
Made
Changes
Changing
Books
Say
Characters
People Say
New
Like
Well
Fresh
Always
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Issue
Lot
Different
Decisions
Race
Them
Different Things
Keeping
Reinvent
Things
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
Fred Durst
Life
Love
Director
Characters
Talented
Talented Actors
Actor
Bring
If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.
Freddie Stroma
Good
Me
You
Long
Characters
Attraction
Material
Lots
Different
Different Characters
Fun
Play
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
Frederick Wiseman
Myself
Me
Situation
Think
Characters
Tells
About
Like
Read
Discover
Where
Prefer
Novelist
Novels
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson
Myself
Family
Culture
Believe
Peer
Defining
Characters
Wrestling
Tend
Point
Adult
Sort
Deal
How
Am
Context
Same
Going
Who
Who Am I
Groups
I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
G. Willow Wilson
Success
Hope
Will
Doors
Other
Characters
Marvel
Open
Open Doors
Creators
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
G. Willow Wilson
Women
Black
Girl
Books
Ghetto
Characters
Only
Write
Writers
Allowed
Put
Women Writers
Want
Literary
Which
Create
I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
Gabrielle Union
Character
You
Think
Channel
Say
Bite
Drawn
Characters
Able
More
Through
Take
Because
Get
Being
Where
Want
Experiences
Hollywood
Much
Really
Your
Cool
Things
Tongue
Position
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
Gail Honeyman
Strange
Fear
Everything
Characters
See
About
Faces
Shampoo
Feel
Like
Know
Although
Greatest
How
Sound
Brand
May
Use
Many
Actually
As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.
Gail Simone
Death
Time
Think
Characters
Kind
Both
Marvel
Adventure
Infallible
Up
Goes
Often
Fiction
Which
Notch
Victories
Them
Many
Start
Famously, DC has been pretty great showing gay women, with characters like Batwoman, but has shown fewer prominent men on the sexuality spectrum outside of hetero. It's something we need to address. I also think it's lovely how the readers respond to this.
Gail Simone
Great
Gay
Women
Men
Think
Address
Respond
Prominent
Characters
Has-Been
Sexuality
Pretty
Something
Outside
Like
Also
Readers
How
Been
Fewer
Lovely
Showing
Shown
Spectrum
Need
Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
Gail Z. Martin
People
Enjoy
Other
Those
Characters
See
Having
Share
Head
Come
Real
Getting
Stories
Them
Cool
There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
Gal Gadot
Today
Good
You
Women
Strong
Girl
Wish
Films
Enough
Characters
See
Strong Women
More
Writers
Had
Most
Female
Female Characters
Heartbroken
Roles
Poor
It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
Garret Dillahunt
Try
Think
Philosophy
Say
Range
Characters
Kind
One Thing
Like
Supposed
Just
Different
Next
Should
Whole
Actor
Play
Thing
Wide
Wide Range
I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.
Garrett Dillahunt
Me
Think
Melancholy
Says
Drawn
Characters
About
Shame
Know
Interesting
Who
Filled
I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
Garrett Dillahunt
Think
Say
Range
Characters
Like
Supposed
Just
Should
Play
Wide
Wide Range
There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
Garth Ennis
You
Respect
Long
Past
Immense
Characters
More
Had
Occasion
Sort
Been
Sneak
Fun
Need
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