When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" people judge you from what they hear and what others tell them, they wont take time to learn about y... MARIAM When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do you ... CAROL ADAMS Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them. MICHAEL JOSEPHSON What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH The biggest lie in the world is that when people tell you that what they really want is for you to t... CARL WHITE What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and ev... MARJORIE KELLOGG The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. Yo... DICK COSTOLO What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. ALAN FURST Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear,” Martin ... CAL NEWPORT People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'c... STELLA YOUNG What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win. CHARLIE NORWOOD The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over. VANESSA PARADIS When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA You need to talk to people, and you need to hear what it is they have to say. ENDA KENNY When you hear about what they are … you'll be amazed. It's kind of refreshing to hear what some of... JERRY LARSON You get the fans behind you, they get loud. You don't get tired when you hear that. JEFF WEHLING If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ... BILL BURTON You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Surely you do not make the dead to hear, and you do not make the deaf to hear the call when they go ... QURAN Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. WILL FERGUSON Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. TREVON CLARK Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. JASON SMITH Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. AUSTIN O'MALLEY Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. JAMES SCOTT They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear,... ALFA H When you're playing an action game, by the time you say 'look out' to someone, they're already dead ... GARY WHITTA When you hear the title, some people think there's nudity in it. They wonder, 'do the characters pee... PAULA MCGLASSON It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ERROL FLYNN If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. ROBERTO BOLAñO When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned. MELANIE BENJAMIN When people say they like you, make sure they don't like you just for the things they could take awa... OUSSAMA HEDHLI When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes. DALE RENTON When you are a singer, everyone wants to see you or hear you. It makes you feel good, like they trus... MORGAN CARTER When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. TERRENCE HOWARD You never know what you'll hear when you step on to the bus. GENE JOHNSON If you don't want your children to hear what you're saying, pretend
you're speaking directly to them... UNKNOWN People see what you are before they hear what you are. VIKRANT PARSAI You have mixed feelings when you hear a hurricane is coming because they keep telling you to leave a... IAN WILLIAMSON When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win. CHARLIE NORWOOD We know best what they listen to when they listen to you, and when they take counsel secretly, when ... QURAN When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned. KATHRYN PRESCOTT Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What ... ORIANA FALLACI If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see. LIBBA BRAY As a teacher, that's what you like to hear. They say they can't wait to go to school and work on it.... KATIE BARNES People hear what you say but believe what you do SPENCER GRANT FLOWER What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You i... JEFF JARVIS No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a... IRWIN WINKLER I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down. TOBA BETA When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or n... ROBERT JORDAN Pay less attention to what you HEAR about someone, and more to what you LEARN about them...as you ma... OG MANDINO Yeah right, no matter what were air tight, so when you hear something make sure you hear it right. P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY I'm glad to hear you say that publicly. The people need to hear you say that. DAN SWANDT When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms an... SAM SHEPARD If you hear that someone is going to break into your house and harm you, can you go over to their ho... DAVID ROTHSTEIN Close the door. Write with _no one_ looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other p... BARBARA KINGSOLVER When you hear sirens, that's all it takes to take something seriously. DAVID LANG I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo. JASON DAY You are who you spend time with, you are what you say, you are what you hear and you are what you se... ANIL GUPTA You cry when you see these kids around the world, ... would never be able to afford the (hearing aid... MICHAEL BOLTON If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say... EPICTETUS Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you ... NABIL N. JAMAL When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the ... JEROME HINES People don't want to hear what you are going to do as much as they want to see you do it. JEFFREY BENJAMIN When you are a true listener, you will hear what is not said. JEFFREY BENJAMIN If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return. UNKNOWN I don't want to say these things. That's why I'm saying them. You may not want to hear them. That's ... DAVE WINER Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe i... JODI PICOULT I look at you and I write down what I hear. VIRGIL THOMSON What you do speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you say. GUS FREROTTE I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it ... JAMES TAYLOR What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try ... BERRY GORDY Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what yo... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibran... GREG GRAFFIN I just want to encourage you guys to take this time to listen to God and hear what he has to say to ... AARON PIPKIN People are so use to hearing and living with lies that when they hear the truth they call you crazy. SEAN CROSBY I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day; and take it... JAMES TAYLOR What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud? SARAH DESSEN You are who you spend time with, you are what you say, you are what you hear and you are what you se... ANIL GUPTA When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing st... NATALIE GOLDBERG When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to ... SALMAN AZIZ I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it. WIZ KHALIFA Go talk to the cops you know and see what they say, ... If the union is speaking for them and it's n... JOSEPH BROWN What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. RALPH WALDO EMERSON What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you talk to people about the topics they like talking about they will stick around for more. Ta... ANDONI GARCIA There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you ar... ANN-MARIE MACDONALD I want to hear what you have to say. BOB SIMON When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear... CARLISLE FLOYD
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