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The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

~Anne Rice

Topics: Arouse Beginning Best Catharsis Character End Ever Middle Pity Plot Principles Should Taught Then Thing Those Were

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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Amateur Character Differences Grew Marriage Must Opportunities Out Reflection Richest Show Surely Unhappy

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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Appear Appearance Artificial Background Book Calculated Character Details Early Ever Family History Lifts Long More Much Notes Novel Stage Than Think Will Write I Think

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There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Character Child Connection Everything Family Friends Like Love Nature Nothing Own Parents Partner Powerful Prism See Serious Spouse Through Which You Your Your Child I See

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What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Character Love Makes Tries Us

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Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

~Annette Bening

Topics: About Because Camera Character Even Film Great Happen Hopefully Loves Most Something Stable Surprising Want You

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My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Character Descend Eccentric Illness Out Person Running Scissors She Starts Terrible Then Wonderfully

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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

~Annie Besant

Topics: Also Ambitious Attempts Black Character Composition Different First Letter Lines Lives Made More Much Saints Serious Short Short Stories Some Stories Took Two Type Up Very Were Work Writing Wrote

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I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

~Annie Potts

Topics: Because Character Fun Love Much Opportunity Paint Series So Much Fun Television I Love

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I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

~Annie Potts

Topics: Actor Always Been Character Character Actor Come Historically Later Lives Own Professional Until Will

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