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I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks.
Jennifer Morrison
Buy
Big
Research
Back
Later
Characters
Magazines
Part
Around
How
Go
Years
Big Part
Just
Them
Keep
Tons
I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.
Jennifer Stone
You
Old
Way
Characters
Some
Voices
Supporting
Performed
Over
Look
Because
Were
Hear
Versatile
Listen
Movies
Really
Disney
Use
Villains
I love social media. It's nice to share a side of me that people don't generally get to see or know about. I want them to know me, beyond my characters.
Jennifer Winget
Love
Me
People
Social Media
Nice
Side
Characters
See
About
Generally
Share
Beyond
Know
Get
Want
Social
Them
Media
I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.
Jennifer Winget
Me
Challenge
Enough
Projects
Characters
Been
Offered
Different
Fortunate
Played
There's some of me in all my characters.
Jenny Han
Me
Characters
Some
I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end.
Jenny Han
Hope
Age
Book
Hopeless
Sense
Think
Distinguishes
Characters
Adult
Feels
Read
Ya
Because
End
Just
Fiction
Ever
College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.
Jenny Han
Work
You
College
Year
Books
Characters
See
Never
Part
Huge
Times
Huge Part
Often
Senior
Senior Year
Actually
Applications
People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.
Jenny Slate
Jokes
People
Characters
See
Sacrificed
Comedies
Where
Want
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
Jenny Slate
Love
Funny
Sometimes
Comedy
Joke
Important
Think
Characters
More
Sacrificed
Than
Often
I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.
Jens Lekman
Dignity
People
Song
Joke
Stupid
Think
Otherwise
Bit
Eye
Characters
Entertain
Entertain People
Would
Would-Be
Wrap
Silly
Songs
Written
Feel
Come
Always
Line
Lot
End
Up
Very
In The End
Little
Tear
Last
For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.
Jeph Loeb
Best
Character
Religion
Woman
Gender
Our
Characters
About
Marvel
Never
Looked
Terms
Truly
Any
Happens
Story
Race
Fantastic
Who
Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.
Jeph Loeb
Life
People
Matter
Heroes
Starts
Out
Characters
Marvel
Parker
Matt
Trying
Where
Whether
Figure
Who
Peter
Stark
Damaged
Core
Tony
I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.
Jeremy Irons
Me
You
Man
Gorgeous
Typical
Bit
Characters
Bores
Charming
Dirt
Absorb
Leading
Leading Man
Like
Know
Look
Attractive
Call
Been
Role
Just
Where
Sand
Film
Played
I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.
Jeremy Irons
Work
Great
Quality
Think
Extraordinary
Way
Characters
Shakespeare
Writes
He
Written
Nobody
Since
Very
Behave
Human
Which
Mean
Full
Inconsistent
There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
Jeremy Northam
People
Characters
Critical
Carry
Examination
Could
Emotional
Involved
Sort
Been
Very
Happened
Much
Really
Forward
Lives
I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.
Jeremy Northam
Journey
Mind
Once
Characters
Table
About
Somehow
Something
Never
Put
Sort
Because
Revealed
Always
Go
Want
Cards
You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can become deeply involving for an audience.
Jeremy Podeswa
You
Long
Become
Think
Characters
Haul
About
Potentially
Long Haul
Over
Involving
Audience
How
Years
Going
Storytelling
Engage
Deeply
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
Jeremy Renner
Freedom
Me
Characters
Gives
Through
Like
Make
Lot
Repressed
Different
Subtleties
Choices
It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.
Jeremy Sisto
Hope
Great
You
People
Darkness
Hilarious
Christopher
Relate
Kid
Complex
Niro
Complexity
Characters
Some
Something
Know
De Niro
Comedies
Well
Done
Room
Level
Playing
I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
Jerrod Carmichael
Great
Me
Advice
Gave
Kid
Out
Characters
Telling
Followed
Never
Comedian
Doing
Friend
Loved
Sketches
Then
Shot
Really
Should
Her
Playing
Kept
Set
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Book
First
Before
Tell
Characters
Would
Rapture
About
Instead
Like
First One
Left
End
Did
Going
Behind
Prequel
Start
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
Jerry Jeff Walker
Characters
Stay
More
Individual
New
Know
Go
Texans
Lot
Up
Forever
York
Any
New York
Places
Them
Two
In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
Jerry Yang
Me
Crazy
Made
Long
Characters
Able
Some
Something
Small
He
Feet
Like
Dealer
Private
His
Lotus
Very
Artist
Dynasty
Script
Available
Fortunate
Standard
Yuan
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski
Time
Me
Travel
Characters
Seems
Countries
Lot
Just
Create
Actions
Waste
Waste Of Time
Why
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.
Jesmyn Ward
Generation
World
Language
Important
Characters
About
Through
Write
Understand
Hip-Hop
Blues
Which
Use
I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.
Jesmyn Ward
Work
Creative
Book
Will
Beginning
Whatever
Approach
Characters
Kind
Outline
Writer
Idea
Like
Nonfiction
Am
End
Just
Fiction
Then
Really
Found
Vague
Vague Idea
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