Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.
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Related All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might... JON FAVREAU If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. DAVID SOUL A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you'r... TOM ELLIS You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be differ... BUBBA SMITH I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. Bu... CARL SANDBURG The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... CAROLYN WELLS I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. JANE HADDAM I told our guys that if we came out and played our game and got off to a good start, that (Chatham) ... BRENT EMMART The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read... CAROLYN WELLS Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ALDOUS HUXLEY Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I woul... PAT CONROY I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books i... WALTER DEAN MYERS If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that wou... CHRISTINE KEELER That character wore a prosthetic suit and when he would lift his arms and so forth, you could tell t... AMANDA ROTH It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make... EVAN HUNTER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If confronted, to tell the truth, people would rather live in denial and defend there lie, but they ... GARY F EVANS... There are a lot of people that want to send us home feeling like failures because we won bronze. I t... CHANDA GUNN I would rather be called a character actor than a star. LOUIS JOURDAN But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punch... ANNE URSU I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA We exist solely because we have a body and a mind – a mind that arises out of the body. If this we... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist... C.S. LEWIS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I g... COREY TAYLOR I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate... CHARLOTTE ROSS I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembere... ROWAN ATKINSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road ... JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? BOB DYLAN The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of ... SōSEKI NATSUME There's so much character and history in that than there ever would be in a Wal-Mart. CHRIS BREWER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We felt it had a character, it had a great story to tell, it had interesting people and it had a ric... JEFF CHIRICO We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovatio... HERBIE HANCOCK After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a... EDWARD HOPPER The joke is, we all have the same punchline. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and ... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd sa... EMERAUDE TOUBIA You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but i... HANK AZARIA This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice.... HENRY CAVILL I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ... PLAUTUS I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are
the gift of fortune, while ... PLAUTUS My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be trea... IGOR ELISEEV The show is not about his personal life, ... but you get curious about that, so we wanted to get a g... DAVID SHORE We spread our scoring around a little. Rachelle is just about always our leader, but Christine Crand... JASON POOLE To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me,... ANYA TAYLOR-JOY Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness o... E. STANLEY JONES I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do
nothing and succeed. ROBERT SCHULLER It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. WILLIAM OSLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES A lot of the blockbuster products will lose their patents soon, so the companies are milking them fo... ALEXANDER GROSCHKE The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its... THOMAS C. HALIBURTON The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its... THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON It is easier to change rivers and mountains than human character. VIKRANT PARSAI A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situation... SHAWN WAYANS It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely r... VAL MCDERMID You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day." For s... TERRY PRATCHETT if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging o... STACY HAWKINS ADAMS Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect. SALLY THORNE I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love... CHARLOTTE ROSS People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character w... TOM FELTON Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played... EDDIE MARSAN Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. MICHEL FABER Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ... UMBERTO ECO One of our reporters asked me if we would be scared of the environment. We know it's going to be lou... DAN PIFER If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, informati... MARSHALL CURRY The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that neve... MEL BROOKS ...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that adv... JOHN GREEN Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to. ARAP YEGON CHITABKORET People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt. JANE WIEDLIN I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the s... ALEXI ZENTNER Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would... OMAR NELSON BRADLEY It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love ... JAMI ATTENBERG Remember how I told you that a person’s conduct is the first hint we have of a person’s characte... GLEN SHULD I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy. Ther... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN If I lived forever, who knows what I would do?" he continues. "I would certainly get better at the p... TOM HIDDLESTON If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Millies ex-husband is in the publishing industry. They always told people he published text and refe... BILL STOKES To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that.... BILLY WEST
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JOYCE GIRAUD My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation.... JOYCE GIRAUD 'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a rep... JOYCE GIRAUD I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I creat... JOYCE GIRAUD I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My o... JOYCE GIRAUD Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care a... JOYCE GIRAUD I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand. JOYCE GIRAUD I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies,... JOYCE GIRAUD I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want a... JOYCE GIRAUD I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me. JOYCE GIRAUD I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born... JOYCE GIRAUD I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing. JOYCE DIDONATO The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It w... WILLIAM JOYCE I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like m... WILLIAM JOYCE We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus a... JOYCE MEYER There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's wh... JOYCE MEYER Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of ... JAMES JOYCE Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giant... JAMES JOYCE To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life. JAMES JOYCE Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can... JAMES JOYCE I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink ... JOYCE MEYER When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and no... JAMES JOYCE Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an ... JOYCE MEYER The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. JAMES JOYCE I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is... JOYCE KILMER He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. JAMES JOYCE History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. JAMES JOYCE One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life. JOYCE MEYER Today is a brand new beginning for me! JOYCE MEYER