Susanna Kearsley Quotes

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

Susanna Kearsley

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Time
  • Live
  • Character

• The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Plays

• A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Character
  • Festival
  • Rebuild

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Author

• I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Words

• I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Character

• I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Real
  • Character

• When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

  

  Lori Loughlin
  • Character

• I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

  

  Doug Liman
  • World
  • Men
  • Country

• New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Time
  • Character
  • Pretty

• You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

  

  Ann Cotton
  • People
  • Done
  • Words

• Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

  

  Black Elk
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Words

• Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • Live
  • Die
  • Things

• If you want to have the best employees, there really needs to be a vision and a mission. Talent looks for a mission. And if you have the best talent, that's the single biggest competitive advantage any company can have.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Single
  • Vision

• I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

  

  William P. Young
  • Believe
  • Inspiration
  • Grace

• The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

  

  Susanna Kearsley
  • Character
  • Words
  • Emotion