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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Alive Characters Dickens Even Love Minor Most Particular Tradition Where I Love

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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Also Approach Book Characters Diction Different Different Characters First Friend Landscape Language Little Long Novel Story Use

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I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

~Donnie Wahlberg

Topics: Bring Characters Ground Kind Most Reality Somehow Table Try

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I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

~Donnie Wahlberg

Topics: Always Characters Myself Play See Something I Can

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My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

~Donnie Yen

Topics: Action Any Because Cannot Character Characters Cop Fly Follows Make Off Posing Practical Roof Sense Time You

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There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

~Donnie Yen

Topics: Also Angles Arms Around Bodies Camera Characters Complicated Connection Cool Deal Film Flying Itself Just Legs Look Lot More Movement Some Something Sophisticated Think Thinking Whole You I Think

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I look for characters that speak to something in me.

~Dorian Missick

Topics: Characters Look Me Something Speak

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I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.

~Dorian Missick

Topics: Black Characters Come Disconnected Friends Lot Maybe Put Ridiculous Situations Stereotypes Them Think Three Times Two White Who Write Writers I Think

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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Characters Done Feminist Movement Much Think Women

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Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Characters English Excellence Find Friends Just Language Lives Poor Praise Shines Should Speak Too Which

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