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When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.
It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.
The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.
Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
I love the Walking Dead, but I dont wanna be an actual prominent character on the show. I just wanna be a zombie.
When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.
If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.
You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.
When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
I am not playing a villain or a negative role in 'Turram Khan.' My character is that of a simple small-town girl.
Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.