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  • I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Character Quotes , President Quotes
  • Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al Hirschfeld Quotes , Moving Quotes , Character Quotes
  • "The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes