"In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I register my anxieties and alarms. This is true even in my comedies."

-- Norman Lock

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Voice Quotes

“You wonderful girl. Iâ€™ve missed you so much.â€ â€œWell, now that weâ€™re both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time weâ€™ll have to hang out!”
“The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.”
“Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.”

Source : JOSEPHINE TEY (1949). “BRAT FARRAR”
“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
“Find in yourself those human things which are universal.”
“... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.”

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