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Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
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Cameron Diaz
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
Orison Swett Marden
If I don't love my character, I can't do it.
Tahar Rahim
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
Beau Bridges
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
Yair Lapid
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Tadashi Yanai
I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
Kaley Cuoco
I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps in Nutty Professor II, I said, 'I'm going to try my hand at a female character.' It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you
Tyler Perry
All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.
Lisa See
I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
Jean Craighead George
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Wale
Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.
Martin O'Malley
Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
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