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People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions. -- Michelle M. Pillow
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person. -- Vanessa Lengies
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.' -- Vanessa Lengies
If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. -- Winona Ryder
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. -- Bridgit Mendler
Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. -- Janet Fitch
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. -- Thomas Perry
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.' -- Breckin Meyer
If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way. -- Lorrie Moore
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. -- Anne Lamott

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