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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? -- Laurell K. Hamilton
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. -- Joshua Leonard
There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it. -- Anthony Michael Hall
Self-control is the only possible road to character development -- Dennis Prager
Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society? -- Dennis Prager
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. -- Tom Johnson
God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ. -- Rick Warren
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. -- Matt Lauria
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them. -- Columbus Short
Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development. -- Jim Jefferies
I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think The Ring plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. -- Martin Henderson
There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama. -- Stephanie Zacharek
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development -- Laurell K. Hamilton
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us. -- Stephen King
Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right. -- Hany Abu-Assad
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development. -- Eric Dane
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. -- Norman Macleod
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. -- Katherine Waterston
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard. -- Larry Cohen
The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution. -- Irving Stone
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories. -- Connie Nielsen
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. -- Sandra Brown
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. -- Martin Henderson
The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad. -- Robert LaSardo
Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development. -- John Lasseter
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing. -- Mike Nichols
I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development. -- Bonnie Bedelia
There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale, and while there is no project currently in development, I think the series has both the big imagery and complex character development to have legs either as a TV series or film franchise. -- Peter V. Brett
There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test. -- Mike Pompeo
When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development. -- Doug TenNapel
Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can. -- Chris Wooding
I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do. -- Rose McIver
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas. -- Richard Harmon
Rebellion is necessary for development of character. -- Cynthia Voigt
Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy. -- Radhanath Swami
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. -- Quentin Crisp
The end and aim of all education is the development of character. -- Francis Wayland Parker
There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming. -- David O. McKay
I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented. -- Deborah Ann Woll
Thereâ??s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools. -- Dennis Prager
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. -- L. P. Jacks
I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development. -- Nia Long
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. -- Maria Montessori
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft. -- Vin Diesel
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play. -- Clair Bee
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. -- Gavin Newsom
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character. -- David O. McKay
Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development. -- Napoleon Hill
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. -- David O. McKay
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can. -- Alexis Denisof
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics. -- Clair Bee
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling. -- Alexander Weinstein

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