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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. Ken Follett
Women Books Characters Rather Thrillers Masculine Been Very Often Decorative
I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline. Ken Follett
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Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves. Ken Liu
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'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life. Ken Liu
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I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being. Ken Stott
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About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
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The characters I play are tough, but I love laughing and humor. Ken Watanabe
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When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood. Kenneth Bonert
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I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar. Kenneth Branagh
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If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it. Kenneth Lonergan
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In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men. Kent Haruf
Women Emotions Men Characters More Advanced Terms Lot Than Them Acting Showing
I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive. Kenya Barris
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Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C. Kenya Barris
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I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story. Kerry Bishe
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. Kerry Greenwood
Writing First Books Way Characters Detectives Some Noir Because Female Were Flawed Based Started
When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you put a black character in there, somehow the white audience isn't expected to identify with them. That's a problem. Kerry James Marshall
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. Kerry Washington
Courage Characters About Having Allow Audience Private Acting Your Moments Lives
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race. Kerry Washington
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I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum. Kevin Bacon
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If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive. Kevin Hart
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When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like. But you go into a room with 4,000 people or 2,000 people who know your movie, know the lines, and know the characters; it's really a lot of fun. Kevin Heffernan
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Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people. Kevin Kline
Love People Favorite Characters Some Because Making Been Very Pompous Fun Played
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters. Kevin Kline
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Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash. Kevin Kwan
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It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you. Kevin Nealon
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I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. Kevin Smith
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