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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

~Edith Stein

Topics: Breadth Cannot Character Claim Community Culture Distinctive Emerges Ethnic Having Mentality People Scope Special Still Unless Until

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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

~Edmund White

Topics: Boy Character Class Contract Gay Generation History Instance Like Make Me Men Moment More My Generation Novel Other Own Reader Representative Social Social Class Story Think Wanted You Youth I Think

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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.

~Edmund White

Topics: Although Atheist Be Different Character Decade Different Each Man Novel Others Own People Progressive Really Remember Russian Should Someone Suppose Thought Till Typical I Remember 1920S

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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Author Character Every Extension Know Material Own People Personality Source Those You Your

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I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: Best Character Color Done Integrity Looking Matter Me Party Person Political Political Party Qualification Qualified Race Religion Save Skin Someone Things Those Want Who World

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I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: Almost Character Characters Child Clothes Create Dolls Fashion Game Go Idea Just Kind Like Me Picture Playing She Some Still Them Throw Where Who You Your

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Topics: Ascribe Author Character Consistent Drew Ever Forced He Human Human Nature Many Nature

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Style is the image of character.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Character Image Style

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I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

~Edward Herrmann

Topics: Actor Character Character Actor Fill Good Good Actors Good Character Lead Leading Leading Man Man Matter Offered Really Role Take

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How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

~Edward Herrmann

Topics: Action Actor Character Each Every Find His How How Many Times Make Many Own Play Quirky Romantic Times Unique Way You

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