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It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
Lindy Booth
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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.


James Lovelock
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
Tamora Pierce
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.


Benjamin Franklin
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I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.


Steven Van Zandt
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.


Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.


Robin Tunney
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh
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I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other people, or the characters, or a character from a book.
Penelope Cruz
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I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.
Michelle Forbes
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In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
Wim Wenders
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I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
Bobby Flay
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
Nick Cave
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey
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It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?
Ali Larter
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
Gale Norton
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
Daniel Bruhl
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
Nell Freudenberger
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.


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