Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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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.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.
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I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
