Jane Goldman
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ANDY WALLACE NICHOLAS SPARKS VANNA BONTA One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead char... JOE CORNISH When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are... ZIYI ZHANG JEANETTE WINTERSON CRAIG GROESCHEL The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, becaus... TAISSA FARMIGA In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a ... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU ALLEGRA GOODMAN JAMES DASHNER JOAN LINGARD Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films cre... ANGELICA HOPES In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era. MICK FOLEY There's so much truth about frustration and desperation. These two characters are so beaten down, bu... TRACY FRANKLIN GERMANY KENT I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given t... JULIAN FELLOWES KURT VONNEGUT JOHN GREEN CRAIG GROESCHEL NICHOLAS SPARKS CHARLAINE HARRIS JEFFREY FRY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE STEVEN SEAGAL Life is full of battle with so many hindrance & obstruction one has to encounter. One with strong me... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits a... DANIEL SHARMAN You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. VICTORIA ABRIL There are many places you need to be, but there is nowhere to reach. There are many people you need ... JASZ GILL EVE ENSLER I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. B... ADAM SHANKMAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with dif... ERIC JEROME DICKEY You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to... GREG BERLANTI JAMES DASHNER GEORGE A. ROMERO Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physic... ETGAR KERET ABHIJIT NASKAR JEFFREY FRY DANIEL CLOWES I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, an... DAN SCANLON DAVID MORSE I think the novel, the story and the characters are quite universal. CHRIS WEITZ Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early... DAVE ROWNTREE I want to know what happens. Once I invent the characters, I want to know what happens to them. BETH ANDERSON We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of th... BRIAN WICKER What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA REBECCA MCNUTT I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there... MICHAEL C. HALL SPIKE LEE GOLDA MEIR I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try t... TANANARIVE DUE We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of t... ERIC DARNELL My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH JAMES WAN My characters are not plastic. KAREN KINGSBURY RALPH WALDO EMERSON E. L. KONIGSBURG JEAN-LUC GODARD RYAN GOSLING OSHO WHIT STILLMAN MIKE BIRBIGLIA CRAIG GROESCHEL
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You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor... JANE GOLDMAN There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone... JANE GOLDMAN Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone e... JANE GOLDMAN There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Th... JANE GOLDMAN I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for somet... JANE GOLDMAN It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It&#... JANE GOLDMAN A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer... JANE GOLDMAN Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postm... JANE GOLDMAN People's intolerance, I find puzzling. JANE GOLDMAN I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes. JANE GOLDMAN I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for t... JANE GOLDMAN 'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007. JANE GOLDMAN I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friend... JANE GOLDMAN You can tell a lot in shorthand. JANE GOLDMAN I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual langua... JANE GOLDMAN My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's! JANE GOLDMAN Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot. JANE GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN DUFF GOLDMAN The productivity number came in better than expected and there were fewer jobless claims than foreca... AL GOLDMAN This morning's economic numbers were friendly for stocks, AL GOLDMAN Drug companies are being hit by the Merck trial. But since their valuations are still cheap, we migh... AL GOLDMAN The market is a discounting mechanism and typically looks six-to-nine months ahead. But now everyone... AL GOLDMAN The market is going to take a pause to refresh, AL GOLDMAN The bottom line is the market ran too far too fast, and we have to remove the excesses. Believe it o... AL GOLDMAN When you throw rotten tomatoes at a queen bee like Cisco, it splashes over on everyone else. AL GOLDMAN We're already in a bear market for small- and mid-cap stocks. Big caps have been in a Super Bowl mar... AL GOLDMAN A number of the high tech names are getting smacked real good. It was already a market where investo... AL GOLDMAN (Intel) is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We a... AL GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial... ALAN GOLDMAN We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lo... ALAN GOLDMAN We have to take it easy while we can. We want to travel a little, but we're not moving to Florida. ALAN GOLDMAN It would be incredibly good to see a hotel there, and an office building in that vacant lot behind i... 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Fundamentally, we haven't had the maxi... ALFRED GOLDMAN The market is due for a correction, but none of us know when it will pull back, ALFRED GOLDMAN The market is responding to strong economic fundamentals -- there is no inflation and there is the a... ALFRED GOLDMAN The bears are screaming that the market is too selective, ALFRED GOLDMAN We have been and remain in a bull market, ALFRED GOLDMAN I think both the sentiment and fundamental factors are in place for the resumption of a bull market. ALFRED GOLDMAN The correction is over and we've started the summer rally, ALFRED GOLDMAN IBM is the story of the day. The reality is that we are in a bull market. We had two days of correct... ALFRED GOLDMAN The two main wet blankets on the mood of investors right now are the price of oil and bond yields. ALFRED GOLDMAN We're in the process of making a bottom but probably not at the bottom. After the damage done to peo... 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I think these are things that can be very beneficial to the... BOB GOLDMAN When we can't dream any longer, we die. GOLDMAN EMMA EMMA GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN DUFF GOLDMAN What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was ... FRANCISCO GOLDMAN Applied Material's multiple is bound to -- down to something like 15 times forward-looking earnings.... AL GOLDMAN We have been and we remain in a very powerful bull market, ... in near term basis, the market has co... AL GOLDMAN WILLIAM GOLDMAN EMMA GOLDMAN It's a natural, undisturbed trail, ... People can enjoy the different kinds of trees, plant and anim... DAVID GOLDMAN We sense that the sell-off is behind us and the market has the preconditions in place for a pretty g... AL GOLDMAN This is not a bad day. 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