18 Character Sayings

#1. A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

John Niven

#2. I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.

Nathan Sawaya

#3. I'm definitely playing next year. That's my ace in the hole. It's a little hard to sit back and watch the guys [this season], but it's easier knowing I've got something to look forward to.

Tedy Bruschi

#4. Write as if your parents are dead.

Anne Lamott

#5. I'm not going to disappear.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#6. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

Tony Goldwyn

#7. When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

David Suchet

#8. No one else seems as real as he does.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

Wayne W. Dyer

#10. Your dreams of today will create your future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").

J.P. Moreland

#12. I don't think real friends would be jealous. -Primrose

Kathryn Lasky

#13. War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

Katherine L. Walker

#14. And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

Deacon Jones

#15. I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

Carole Ann Ford

#16. - Exactly as you imagine. They remain tied to us through the feeling of bitterness. That is why Jesus said: "before going to the temple, go back and forgive your brother." One must be forever washing one's soul with the water of forgiveness.

Paulo Coelho