"The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like painting by the numbers, they often remain stick figures. They will never take on a life of their own. The most exciting thing is when you find a character doing something surprising or unplanned. Like a character saying to me: â€˜Hey, Richard, you may think I work for you, but I donâ€™t. Iâ€™m my own person.â€™"

-- Richard North Patterson

#Moving Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.”
“You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.”
“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”

Source : "The Iron Jackal". Book by Chris Wooding, 2011.
“There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.”
“I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.”
“If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Misha Collins Gets Angelic in Supernatural". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 23, 2008.
“There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.”

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