Chelsea Cain Quotes
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.
Chelsea Cain
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
Natasha Henstridge
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
Rachel Tucker
I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
Ze Frank
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
Viggo Mortensen
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
Nancy Grace
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
Mandy Moore
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Karen Horney
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
Karen Gillan
I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
Garry Wills
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
R. A. Torrey
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.
John Francis Daley
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
Barnett Newman
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.
Chelsea Cain
