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You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #class #doing #individual #make

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#dead #feel #i #idea #much

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#integrity #life #living #matches #outside

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#angle #approach #ask #base #customer

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#get #same #their #use #way

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#flesh #happens #like #lovers #made

The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose #vampier-acadmey #funny

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#man #objective #reach #song #stand