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• Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Integrity, Character, Agreement

  "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". Interview with Ellen DeGeneres, www.oprah.com. October 2001.

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• Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Numbers, Firsts

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• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Weed, Character, Focus

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• The main character of any living system is openness.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Character, Openness

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• But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Adventure, Character

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• There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.

  Goo Hye Sun

  Stars, Character, Opportunity

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• From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

  Francis Chan

  Character, Crazy Love Book

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.29, David C Cook

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• In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.135, Penguin

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• The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Character, Years, Negative

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• What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Reading, Book, Character

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Character, People

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Character, Emotions Feelings

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.

  Sam Lake

  Character, Player, Important

  "Remedy's Sam Lake". Interview with Nick Cowen, www.eurogamer.net. February 18, 2010.

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• Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

  Alec Sulkin

  Children, Character, Sound

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2012

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• Minho looks like a main character of a manga.

  Onew

  Character, Looks, Shinee

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• I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

  Matt Groening

  Mother, Father, Character

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Dad, Character, Littles

  "Mayer Hawthorne Plays the Artists Den, Los Angeles". Interview with Ruthie Abel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

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• When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Voice, People

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• To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.

  Billy Boyd

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Character, Reality

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• If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

  Richard Price

  New York, Book, Character

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• I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Character, Destiny, People

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .

  Tao Lin

  Character, Thinking, Morality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

  Michael Moorcock

  Writing, Character, Plot

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