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characters daytime kept number relate veterans
We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real. Chris Goutman
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There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.
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Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
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When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it. Connie Willis
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is. Li Bingbing
characters draw
Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.
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When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. Mark Billingham
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A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg
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When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail. Sherwood Schwartz
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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. Arthur C. Clarke
dozen half six
Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other. Joe Garagiola
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We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.
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The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,
dozens expensive pairs
I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again. Bonnie Tyler
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I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. Rick Perlstein
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. Gore Vidal
dozen psychotic themselves
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief. Nicola Griffith
dozen heard maybe people proposal
The proposal has been panned by everyone I've heard comment. There have been maybe a dozen people in all.
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction. Charles Stross
fiction science-fiction conventions
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville
fiction geek fantasy
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
fiction fantasy weirdness
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction narrative moments
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton
single-mom believe simple
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. Byron Katie
single loneliness boys
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. Cesare Pavese
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain Ai Weiwei
single-mom struggle opportunity
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities. Bill Richardson
single breakup love-you
That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love. Beyonce Knowles
single shopping numbers
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards. Deepak Chopra
single blessing independence
The first of earthly blessings, independence. Edward Gibbon
single wisdom loneliness
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
single-life down-and done
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done. Ed Sheeran
whom
I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. Tom Lehrer
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I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
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To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required. Andrew Young
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I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for. Sam Worthington
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The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.
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I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?' Azzedine Alaia
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Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are
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I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives. Jane Byrne