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The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict. -- George Blagden
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human. -- James McAvoy
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do. -- Jan Egeland
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism. -- Amy Waldman
I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems. -- Howard Raiffa
Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension. -- Russell M. Nelson
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth. -- Frans de Waal
I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict. -- D. H. Lawrence
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. -- Vladimir Putin
I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict. -- Richard C. Armitage
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal. -- Ira Sachs
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict -- Archibald Marwizi
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict. -- Laila Robins
I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy. -- Zach Galifianakis
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare. -- Kenny Loggins
Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed. -- Jennifer McMahon
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. -- Charlie Dent
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world. -- Bruce Jackson
It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there. -- Aidan Gillen
Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world. -- Jody Williams
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama. -- Miranda Richardson

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