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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
Joanna Lumley
Will
Our
Minds
Way
Characters
One-Way
About
Exciting
Recycled
Primordial
Ideas
Bourne
Another
Returns
Soup
Which
Interesting
Bodies
Traveller
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
Joanna Trollope
Dramatic
Visible
Characters
More
Tension
Towns
Because
Always
Often
Stories
Communities
Actions
Villages
Set
You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
Joanna Trollope
You
Yourself
Other
Characters
Leaking
Parts
Help
I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.
Joanne Froggatt
Films
Characters
More
Always
Very
Different
Want
Wanted
Different Characters
Play
Chance
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
Joanne Kelly
Bent
Characters
See
Child
Want
Literary
Story
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
Joaquin Phoenix
Time
You
Earnest
Everyone
Characters
See
Purpose
Movies
Many
I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.
Jodelle Ferland
Way
Those
Out
Characters
Exactly
Only
Come
Lot
Roles
Just
Play
Set
Creepy
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
Jodi Picoult
Life
Great
Me
You
Husband
My Life
Live
Think
Though
Kids
Characters
Find
Threads
About
Great Place
Write
Writer
Come
Know
Because
Being
Place
Really
Lucky
Even
Things
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Jodi Picoult
Yourself
Shoes
Live
Characters
About
Write
Putting
Them
Really
Lives
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
Jodie Foster
Dignity
Society
Saved
Ways
Characters
Some
Having
Through
Still
Been
Survive
Get
Them
Marginalized
Playing
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
Jodie Foster
Director
People
Focus
Ensemble
Solitary
Characters
Always
How
Making
Lots
Which
Movies
Actor
Lives
Playing
One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.
Joe Cornish
Character
Films
Characters
Moral
Favourite
Directed
Lead
Lead Character
Like
Him
Ambiguity
Louis
Many
Film
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
Joe Klein
Life
You
Own
Recognizable
Characters
About
Take
Like
Fantasize
Really
Your
Novel
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
Joe Manganiello
Me
Book
Made
Mad
Characters
Look
Because
Comic
Built
Comic Book
Were
Where
Movies
Many
Actor
Right
Watched
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
Joe Mantegna
Day
Culture
Become
Our
Those
Characters
Some
Part
Put
Simpsons
Smithsonian
Surprised
The Simpsons
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Joe Morton
You
Science
Think
Characters
More
Fact
Know
Science Fiction
Than
Human
Fiction
Movie
Mean
Much
Who
Thing
Need
In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.
Joe R. Lansdale
Best
Single
Consider
Ways
Characters
Some
Them
Novel
Characters have to make sacrifices. To really, really feel the true emotion and the hero's journey, they have to go through trials, and those trials could cost them something.
Joe Russo
Journey
Trials
Hero
Those
Characters
Cost
Something
Could
Through
Emotion
Sacrifices
True
Feel
Make
Go
Them
Really
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
Joel Coen
Character
You
Invention
Own
Cares
Guess
Way
Say
Characters
About
Something
Poking
Because
Behave
Them
Certain
Your
Who
Who Cares
Fun
Amount
Amusing
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
Joel Edgerton
Darkness
Striving
Characters
Find
Darker
Constantly
Lighter
Lightness
Actor
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.
Joel Edgerton
Life
Great
You
Personality
Sometimes
Behavior
Think
Ways
Lock
Characters
About
Great Thing
Got
Surprising
Shock
Just
Mean
Then
Even
Thing
If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.
Joel Edgerton
Day
Happy
End Of The Day
Back
Characters
See
Pictures
Weirdos
Look
Odd
End
Different
Different Characters
Interesting
Played
The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
Joel Kinnaman
Life
Myself
Problem
My Life
Live
Way
Characters
Conduct
Very
Different
Many
Play
I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.
John Allison
Enthusiasm
Long
Lost
Too
Setup
Hung
Characters
Some
Scary
Had
Knew
Couple
Sure
Go
Years
Next
Round
I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.
John Allison
Man
Out
Characters
Writes
Never
Female
Female Characters
Lot
Who
Set
I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
John Banville
Love
Business
Book
Writing
Feeling
Wish
Say
Intricate
Plot
Possible
Characters
Run
Would
See
Could
Writer
Take
Over
Suppose
Because
Frequently
How
His
Exist
Meticulous
Technical
Away
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