"If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive."

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Source : "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

Catherine Keener

#Character Quotes #Giving Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”
“But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aintâ€™ always good for me.”
“Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.”
“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”
“With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.”
“I know how long it took me to lose my weight, and people have got to understand it?s not always easy. If all this can help one child, we are doing our job.”
“When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.85, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“Food makes my mind sluggish.”

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