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• These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

  Lewis Tappan

  Character, Interesting, Attention

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• Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Men, Interesting

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• It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

  Jessica Alba

  Character, Interesting, Want

  "The Changeling". Interview with Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. February 04, 2009.

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• The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

  Richard Dooling

  Character, Men, Land

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• I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Interesting, Want

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• I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Character, Interesting

  "Helen Mirren, ‘Hitchcock’ Star, On Meeting Alfred Hitchcock: ‘I Was Arrogant & Ignorant’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

  Anna Paquin

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

  Alan Rickman

  Writing, Character, Journey

  "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.

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• Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc

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• External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Fall, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.3

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• Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

  Charles Dickens

  Enemy, Fellows

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4639, Delphi Classics

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• But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Soul, Tears

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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• You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually. His nonconformity is admirable and he's survived things that would crush a lesser male. Don't know that being in love with him would be easy, however." Blay didn't go near that one. "So do you come here often?" Saxton laughed, his pale eyes glinting, "Not for discussion, huh.

  J.R. Ward

  Crush, Cousin, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.263, Penguin

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• Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

  Isabel Allende

  Motivation, Nice, Inspiration

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Butterfly, Deny

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Commitment, Ifs

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.205

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• I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

  Ronny Cox

  Character, Thinking, Blue

  "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

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• There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

  Derek Jacobi

  Character, Games, Careers

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• The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter. ...I thought, 'OK, we have to do something with the daughter' ... then I realized she's not really their daughter. She has her own story. And she's become the most interesting character. She was this throwaway character that I didn't even conceive of before I started writing her into it, and now she's become very important in this book.

  Sandra Dallas

  Daughter, Couple, Book

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• Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

  Kelly Reilly

  Character, Interesting, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Writing, Character, Men

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 21, 2010.

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• I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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