Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
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'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
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Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.
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Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.
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I used to see my friend Harland Williams in a lot of auditions. Then you'd see one of the DeLuise kids because they're kind of heavy and character-y. You'd just see a lot of the same guys over the years.
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Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.
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It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.
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I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.
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People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.
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Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
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I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a cooking show on the Food Network. It wasn't on my list of things, but it's fun, and I'm having a good time.
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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
