Quotes about character
character writing thinking
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place. Ron Rash
character blood actors
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. Ron Perlman
character writing ideas
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story. Roger Zelazny
character novel
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel Roland Barthes
character thinking hysteria
There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled. Susan Sarandon
character anxiety important
Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.
character entering jukebox
Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.
character thinking use
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.' Susan Orlean
character perception thrive
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
character play actors
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
character giving risk
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose. Randeep Hooda
character ice law
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.
character thinking function
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
character mean men
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
character stills spells
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
character men conscience
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
character heaven fruit
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
character mean men
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
character men compromise
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
character men hands
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.
character talent sensuality
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
character passion native-american
The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
character fate destiny
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
character levels dignity
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
character personality gentleman
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
character victory instant
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
character deeds-and-words purpose
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
character self elegance
Self-command is the main elegance.
character self want
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
character men fruit
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
character men vision
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
character loss men
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
character faces facts
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.