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Quotes About Characters

You could fall in love with me, you can talk to my shrink, you can hide a tape recorder in my bedroom, see what I talk about from wherever I am when I sleep. You want to do that? You can put together clues, develop a thesis, or several, about why characters reacted to the Trystero possibility the way they did, why the assassins came on, why the black costumes. You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The other personality that lives in your heart'...This is the central theme of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Perhaps the characters I draw are also personalities that exist inside me. Y?gi is in my heart. But also J?nouchi and Kaiba...Pegasus and Mai...Ushio the bully, Insector Haga, Esper Roba...and the countless monsters! Just what kind of person am I?
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
~ Keira Knightley
If we read Girls in the context of the earlier Sex and the City, the contrast between the two adds a dimension to the later serials's world. The impact of the financial crises has shifted the possibilities that had been opened to the characters. They live in contrast to the dreams they saw represented when they were younger.
~ Ken Dancyger
In this country, we were not into detail. Europe developed detail." "Why do you think that is?" "Weather. The whole history of England consists of finding things to do out of the weather. Which tells you why Russia was even worse. That's why Russian novels have 182 characters: bad weather.
~ Ken Jennings
Virginia Woolf described in her fiction her chracters' pain in childhood way and linked it to their emotional lives as adults in a way that was ahead of its time. "It's a fallacy to think that children are unhappy... I've never suffered so much as I did when I was a child," says Richard Dalloway M.P., in The Voyage Out.
~ Kennedy Fraser
ZOS and Scire had a fierce argument as to who had been to the Witches' Sabbath, what the Witches' Sabbath actually was, and so on. Scire drew his magical athame and showed ZOS the strange characters on the hilt. ZOS should have blanched before them but he didn't, saying he "knew all them symbols and more
~ Kenneth Grant
We were probably not as lighthearted as Clooney and Sandra Bullock. We didn't tell too many jokes when people were in some position of jeopardy outside the spacecraft, but I think that's the humanity coming through in the characters. This movie gave great clarity to looking down and seeing the features of Earth ... but there weren't enough clouds, and maybe there was too precise a delineation from space.
~ Buzz Aldrin
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
~ Carl Barks
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.
~ Gena Showalter
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
~ George Bancroft
Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that's God's secret and what I wouldn't give to know it.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth. Look at writers like Proust. They knew how to use minor characters to humiliate, to belittle their protagonists.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
~ Isabel Allende
In the Chinese language, do you know what the characters for 'crisis' are? 'Danger' plus 'opportunity.
~ Isabel Allende
Con estas fotografías y estas páginas mantengo vivos los recuerdos; ellas son mi asidero a una verdad fugitiva, pero verdad de todos modos, ellas prueban que estos eventos sucedieron y estos personajes pasaron por mi destino.
~ Isabel Allende
Mi aveva convinto che al buio i personaggi lasciano le pagine e vagano per la casa; io nascondevo la testa per paura del diavolo negli specchi e di quella folla di personaggi che peregrinavano per le stanze rivivendo le loro avventure e passioni: pirati, cortigiane, banditi, streghe e donzelle. Alle otto e mezzo dovevo spegnere la luce e dormire, ma zio Pablo mi regalò una lanterna per leggere sotto le lenzuola; da allora ho una perversa inclinazione alla lettura segreta.
~ Isabel Allende
i fantasmi dell'immaginazione si trasformano in personaggi definiti, unici, con la loro voce, disposti a raccontarmi le loro vite se concedo loro tempo a sufficienza. Sono così sicura della loro presenza da stupirmi che nessun altro riesca a percepirli
~ Isabel Allende
Escribo sobre lo que me importa, a mi propio ritmo. Y en esas horas ociosas, que mi abuelo llamaba horas malgastadas, los fantasmas de la imaginación se convierten en personajes definidos, únicos, con su propia voz y dispuestos a contarme sus vidas si les doy suficiente tiempo.
~ Isabel Allende
Probably every band - you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic, Led Zeppelin was kinda mystical, The Who are kind of mods. You know, you just go right through. Everyone's kind of adopted their so-called persona or flavor if you will.
~ Kyle Gass
A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.
~ Vince Gilligan
Condition Zero' introduces quite a bit of content and gameplay to 'Counter-Strike' including new weapons, characters, mission types and even new technology to enhance to look and feel of the game.
~ Randy Pitchford
I'm only ambitious in the sense that I want to work in as many different media as I can and to play characters which are different to me and to each other. I want to do work that frightens me or challenges me, be it in Dublin or Zimbabwe. I just want to be working.
~ Ruth Bradley