The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-suffici….
It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she g….
God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It….
You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life..
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not..
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, c….
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself..
That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's i….
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem..
I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further o….
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea ….
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't know much abo….
I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing..
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America..
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, throu….
There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying….
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand..
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far m….
We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about..
The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview ta….
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consum….