"It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters)."

-- Teddy Wayne

#Character Quotes #Voice Quotes #Figures Quotes

“There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.”
“Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.”
“I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.”
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
“I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.”
“There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.”
“Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.”
“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.262, Routledge

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