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HANNAH MURRAY When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's...
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BEN GIBBARD![]()
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really le...
SAOIRSE RONAN![]()
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking B...
ALFONSO CUARON So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some so...
HEATHER MATARAZZO![]()
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac...
RYAN GOSLING I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.
MAGGIE CHEUNG But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh...
ANITA SHREVE It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more...
CARLISLE FLOYD![]()
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY![]()
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this grea...
CHINUA ACHEBE![]()
I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring som...
ANA DE ARMAS All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.
RONNIE WOOD![]()
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA![]()
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different c...
TATIANA MASLANY I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, you...
PRINCE ROYCE![]()
I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
FRED WILLARD![]()
I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl...
LILY COLLINS![]()
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether ...
LAURIE HOLDEN It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can ...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS![]()
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
AMY TAN The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth...
FRANCES O'CONNOR![]()
There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo...
ANNETTE BENING![]()
I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in re...
MORTEN TYLDUM![]()
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have......
PATTY JENKINS![]()
It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's t...
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagin...
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at ea...
BERNARD SUMNER Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fight...
MADCHEN AMICK As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to...
TATE TAYLOR![]()
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a fai...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing....
MAE WHITMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There ...
BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that...
DAMIAN LEWIS We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS![]()
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the p...
MIKE MCCAUL![]()
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON![]()
It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.
CHAD KROEGER![]()
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM![]()
We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematic...
PATTI SMITH The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma...
CANDACE CAMP I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff...
BILLY MAGNUSSEN If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That&#...
MANOJ BHARGAVA I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i...
DAVID WALLIAMS Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t...
TRICIA HELFER![]()
I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. S...
MARTA![]()
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN![]()
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards ch...
BRITTANY SNOW![]()
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS![]()
Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and...
BRITTANY DANIEL It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R...
JANELLE MONAE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons...
BRUCE DAVISON I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a...
TARA STRONG It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all...
OLIVIA CULPO![]()
Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you th...
JASON STATHAM![]()
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or ...
ELLEN BARKIN He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being ...
AARON CARTER![]()
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ...
DANICA PATRICK I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate televis...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON![]()
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that ca...
JODIE FOSTER![]()
I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular fi...
SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I...
RYAN KWANTEN Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to chan...
AWKWAFINA![]()
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my character...
CECELIA AHERN I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious ...
TODD HAYNES Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not...
DON BLUTH You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these establishe...
DAVE GIBBONS![]()
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchco...
BRET EASTON ELLIS![]()
For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That&#...
TOM BRADY![]()
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS![]()
Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM![]()
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the charact...
SIDNEY SHELDON![]()
Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're go...
GISELE BUNDCHEN Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of chara...
NANCY KRESS There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA![]()
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about charac...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK![]()
If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able...
REGGIE JACKSON![]()
Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of...
RACHAEL TAYLOR![]()
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not wh...
COLIN TREVORROW When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But w...
SHAHID KAPOOR![]()
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this grea...
CHINUA ACHEBE![]()
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL![]()
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. An...
DAMIEN HIRST![]()
Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it...
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH![]()
I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't thi...
LINDA RONSTADT
HANNAH MURRAY When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's...
MADCHEN AMICK Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or w...
BEN GIBBARD
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really le...
SAOIRSE RONAN
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking B... ALFONSO CUARON So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some so...
HEATHER MATARAZZO
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... RYAN GOSLING I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.
MAGGIE CHEUNG But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh...
ANITA SHREVE It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more...
CARLISLE FLOYD
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this grea... CHINUA ACHEBE
I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring som... ANA DE ARMAS All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.
RONNIE WOOD
Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different c... TATIANA MASLANY I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, you...
PRINCE ROYCE
I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way. FRED WILLARD
I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl... LILY COLLINS
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether ... LAURIE HOLDEN It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can ...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. AMY TAN The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth...
FRANCES O'CONNOR
There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo... ANNETTE BENING
I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in re... MORTEN TYLDUM
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have...... PATTY JENKINS
It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's t... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagin...
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at ea...
BERNARD SUMNER Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fight...
MADCHEN AMICK As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to...
TATE TAYLOR
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a fai... MICHAEL FASSBENDER All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing....
MAE WHITMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There ...
BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that...
DAMIAN LEWIS We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the p... MIKE MCCAUL
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL
A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON
It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch. CHAD KROEGER
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment... JENNIFER GRANHOLM
We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematic... PATTI SMITH The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma...
CANDACE CAMP I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff...
BILLY MAGNUSSEN If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That&#...
MANOJ BHARGAVA I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i...
DAVID WALLIAMS Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t...
TRICIA HELFER
I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. S... MARTA
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards ch... BRITTANY SNOW
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ... J. J. ABRAMS
Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... JOHN GREEN If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and...
BRITTANY DANIEL It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R...
JANELLE MONAE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons...
BRUCE DAVISON I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a...
TARA STRONG It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all...
OLIVIA CULPO
Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you th... JASON STATHAM
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or ... ELLEN BARKIN He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being ...
AARON CARTER
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... DANICA PATRICK I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate televis...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that ca... JODIE FOSTER
I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular fi... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I...
RYAN KWANTEN Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to chan...
AWKWAFINA
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my character... CECELIA AHERN I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious ...
TODD HAYNES Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not...
DON BLUTH You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these establishe...
DAVE GIBBONS
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchco... BRET EASTON ELLIS
For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That&#... TOM BRADY
In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the charact... SIDNEY SHELDON
Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're go... GISELE BUNDCHEN Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of chara...
NANCY KRESS There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about charac... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able... REGGIE JACKSON
Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of... RACHAEL TAYLOR
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not wh... COLIN TREVORROW When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But w...
SHAHID KAPOOR
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this grea... CHINUA ACHEBE
It ends or it doesn't.That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. An... DAMIEN HIRST
Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it... SUNDAY ADELAJA
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't thi... LINDA RONSTADT
