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• When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

  Ed Helms

  Real, Character, Confusing

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• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  Lauryn Hill

  Character, People, Too Much

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• Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Character, People

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• Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

  Grant Morrison

  Character, Gay, Comic Book

  "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Character, People, Use

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• She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Taken, Character

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Real, Character

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• I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

  Carrie Fisher

  Character

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Character, Thinking

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

  Garrison Keillor

  Moving, Character, Mean

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• I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct.” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time.” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.

  Rachel Vincent

  Character, Mind, World

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.230, MIRA

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• In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Ideas, Film

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• I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

  Alan Moore

  Dream, Adventure, Character

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• Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

  Chris Colfer

  Character, People, Healthy

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• I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

  David Benioff

  Passion, Character, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

  Diane Arbus

  Character, Stories, World

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Grieving, Popcorn

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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• We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Real, Character, People

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.

  Lois Duncan

  Spring, Character, Blue

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• I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

  Meryl Streep

  Pain, Character, Made Up Stories

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• If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Book, Character

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• The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

  Louis Theroux

  Writing, Character, World

  Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

  Cassandra Clare

  Character, Disease, Sides

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• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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