The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
Quotes about characterization (16 Quotes)
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
However, we disagree with the ATT Board's characterization of our offer as inadequate ... As evidenced by the reaction of their shareholders, the Board's concern about our corporate governance has no foundation. We think our stock's historical performance speaks for itself,
What struck me as a little out of character was the Fed's characterization of inflation staying elevated, ... What was here was a clear absence of any sort of signal that the Fed is getting close to the end of tightening and the market seems to be reacting a bit negatively to that.
Bob Woodward's characterization of my memo is incorrect. In the days following 911 our country came together in a nonpartisan support of the president. During that time, I wrote a personal note to a White House staff member as a concerned American expressing my outrage about the attacks on our country. I did not give up my American citizenship to take this job.
I object to any characterization of our government, in good faith, coming to this court ... seeking to intervene when there's serious allegations of abuse.
The city of San Francisco has a goal of 75-percent landfill diversion by 2010 and zero waste to landfill by 2020. According to a recent waste characterization study, 3.8 percent of garbage from residential collections was animal feces mostly from dogs and cats, although other animals could have been represented.
I wouldn't characterize the company as struggling - that's an unfair characterization, ... The company needs cash. That's the outcome of the unanticipated termination of our merger with Columbia House, as opposed to any characteristic of the company itself, in terms of its ability to do business.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
There are all these species out there and so few of them are known in intimate detail, so any kind of ecological characterization, through no fault of ecologists, will be limited in accuracy and precision.
Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
Markets are probably waiting for the announcement by the Bank of Canada tomorrow to get a sense of the characterization of the near-term outlook for policy whether they'll flag they're poised to move to the sidelines or whether they're still contemplating further rate hikes.
I didn't really base my characterization on anybody, ... I don't really work that way when I played a role. I find the parts of myself that the character has. I believe we all have everything within us, the ability to be a killer or the girlfriend of an insect. It was finding those parts of myself that I felt could serve the character of Mackenzie.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
He will retire as commander, with full pension and with an honorable characterization of discharge, consistent with the character of his 20 years service,