"I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them."

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Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

Jessica Abel

#Character Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Fitting Quotes

“I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.”
“He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ***** comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?”
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
“If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.”

Source : "Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" By Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.
“Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.”

Source : "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.”
“The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take care of - if my mom only had her and my sister and my grandmother and my aunt to take care of, couldn't she do the things she was doing for me for herself? That's the reason I took myself away from my family. I left home when I was 13 years old to assume the responsibilities of being a man.”

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