"An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness."

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Source : "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

David Corbett

#Regret Quotes #Character Quotes #Pride Quotes

“The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it”
“Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.”
“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.”
“Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.”
“I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Jul 06, 2012
“The things one wants the most, are not things after all.”
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.”

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