#character

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character. ↗

— Viola Davis

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My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner. ↗

— Jack Dee

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Style is character. ↗

— Joan Didion

#style

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#day #during #enough #find #hard

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say. ↗

— Arthur Herzog

#chapters #characters #eyes #person #points

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts. ↗

— Alla Nazimova

#breeze #character #harps #hung #instrument

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.' ↗

— Reese Hoffa

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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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