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Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.
David Rabe
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Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.


Paula Danziger
I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.
Juliet Landau
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.


Radha Mitchell
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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.


Dave Rowntree
In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
Jerry Yang
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I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
Ernie Pyle
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.


Charles Horton Cooley
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
Bonnie Hunt
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I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.


Jeff MacNelly
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.


Kurtis Blow
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
Milos Forman
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When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.
Rashid Johnson
And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
Ralph Fiennes
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I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
Robert Kiyosaki
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'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.
Henry Ian Cusick
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'
Fred Melamed
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I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.
Tom Perrotta