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I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

~Ansel Elgort

Topics: Basketball Bit Characters Climb Connected Every Important Little Little Bit Paint Part Personality Play Play Basketball Rock Scattered Stay Think I Think I Can

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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Characters Childhood Comfortable Golden Had Lonely Lot Sad Sort

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In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.'

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Apart Arm Around Back Big Build Bulb Cartoons Characters Clay Come Go Hack Head Just Light Light Bulb Like Lump Maybe Me New Notion Out Over Put Right Say Something Step Students Then Walk Will Work You

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I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

~Anthony Geary

Topics: Always Characters Circumstances Extreme Opera Prefer Said Soap Those

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I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

~Anthony Hopkins

Topics: Act Actor Bogart Came Characters Did Generation Just Like Think Those Were Wonderful I Think

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Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

~Anthony Horowitz

Topics: Authors Characters Creations Enslaved Fame Fame And Fortune Feel Fortune Odd Owe Relationships Them

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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Book Characters Convincing Emotionally Important Less Make Place Real Right Right Place Than Tree

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Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Any Characters Childhood Deeper Deeper Meaning Grown Me Meaning Only Reading Regularity Return Two

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Joe and I have always been drawn to ensemble storytelling. We like the idea of telling stories from multiple characters' points of view and thinking about the story from multiple characters' points of view.

~Anthony Russo

Topics: About Always Been Characters Drawn Ensemble Idea Joe Like Multiple Points Stories Story Storytelling Telling Thinking View

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I think that's part of the fun for us: we love looking at movies through the filter of a specific character - characters who aren't the lead - and figuring out the film from their point of view.

~Anthony Russo

Topics: Character Characters Figuring Film Filter Fun Lead Looking Love Movies Out Part Point Point Of View Specific Think Through Us View Who I Think

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