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Susanna Kearsley Quotes

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

Susanna Kearsley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian

Topics

Character Best Words Down Page Way

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature Habit I Am Looking Gift Much

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

Anna Quindlen

Fun Have Fun Someone You Want Kids

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

Michael Hirst

Friend Passion God Welcome Writing

I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.

Michael Arden

World Loved Back Creating Same Saw

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

Steven Pinker

Brain Result Activity Our

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

Steven Tyler

You Look Cheap Expensive Idea How

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Tony Dungy

Yourself Sorry Better Feel You How

I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Focus Better You Find Keep Foot

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

Mike D

Losing Brother Growing Up Growing Up

You have to understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether or not you can see it. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know that you're not alone.

Molly Tarlov

Love Alone Yourself Surround Yourself

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

Judy Sheindlin

Stupid Slow Stand

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Jools Holland

Think Poets I Think Examples Paul