#character

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

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Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana. ↗

— Don Mattingly

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It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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