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My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

~David Means

Topics: Characters Grace Make Most Narrative Place Quiet Resolution Seeking Shelter

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I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.

~David Means

Topics: About Arrive Be True Burst Characters Concerns Deeper Down Draft Finding First Getting Itself Main Main Thing Me Only Out Revision Right Should Specific Story Structure Sure Talk Themes Thing Too True Way Writer Writing

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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Always Balloon Because Character Characters Comics Down Funny Get Goes Joke Jokes Just Lead Like Make Observation Right Sometimes Terrible Them True Why Will

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'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

~David Morrissey

Topics: Blanket Characters Demonic Evil Like People Quite Sometimes Term Them Would

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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

~David Morse

Topics: Characters Community Film Important Independent Independent Film Involve More Smaller Stories Story Tend You

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To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

~David Morse

Topics: Characters Day Experience Finding Love Most Out Playing Who I Love

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With repertory, you had to play all these different characters. The range of roles is really what I fell in love with, every night getting to become somebody different. That was my idea of acting, getting to be part of the company and a family.

~David Morse

Topics: Acting Become Characters Company Different Different Characters Every Every Night Family Fell Getting Had Idea Love Night Part Play Range Really Repertory Roles Somebody You

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I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

~David Nevins

Topics: Characters Deep Formed Fully Like Predictable Rich Shows Surprising

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There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Among Characters Even Expectations Find Functional Great Happy Hard Literature Minor Orphans Parental Relationship Shortage Single Whole

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I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

~David O. Russell

Topics: Characters Dislikes Emotion Every Hates Just Likes Love Loves Passions People Pretentious Real Regular Right Surface Working Working People

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