"I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."

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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

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"I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

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"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."

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"Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?"

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."

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"I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me."

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"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."

Mary Tyler Moore, American Actress

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"I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to."

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"I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories."

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"I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word."

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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."

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"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."

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