J. D. Vance

In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.

American Author

Tom Hanks

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

American Actor

Juliet Marillier

There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.

New Zealander Writer

Garth Stein

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

George Pierce Baker

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.

American Educator

Jacqueline Susann

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

Justin Cronin

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

H. Jon Benjamin

I don't consider myself a very good actor. I'm not bad, but there's not a lot of range in characterizations for me.

John Bolton

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

American Statesman

Robert Ludlum

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

American Novelist

Characterization adds depth to characters and makes them more relatable or understandable to the reader.

Literary Depth

Characterization often involves revealing characters' inner thoughts, feelings, and motivations, not just their actions.

Beyond Appearances

When analyzing literature, look at characterization to understand the themes and messages of the work.

Literature Analysis

Good characterization means a character's behavior is consistent throughout the story, making them believable.

Character Consistency

Characterization is best when shown through actions and dialogue, not just described by the narrator.

Show, Don't Tell

Characterization can show how a character evolves over time, known as a 'dynamic' character.

Dynamic Characters

In science, characterization is about getting to know a substance's properties and behaviors under different conditions.

Understanding Substances

Scientific characterization is detailed and methodical, gathering precise data about the subject.

Scientific Detail

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 There's takeoffs of our logo of an eagle with headphones on around it. And so that's the public characterization. And so we need to be more transparent about those things. What we don't need to be transparent about, because it's bad for the U.S., it's bad for all those other countries that we work with

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 were significantly more industrious, intelligent, and gentle than their peers. On the surface, this might seem like a good thing, or at least better than other, negative characterizations. But treating this seemingly favorable stereotype as reality can actually cause a surprising amount of harm—

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 dinosaurs in the last couple decades uh than in the previous couple of centuries in part because of new fossil discoveries and in part because of uh new methods in the science do you buy that is that is that a fair characterization of where the field is and um for you what do you think the

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 enthusiastically performing the way that Lions do best but nevertheless we shall assist them and perhaps we shall even be able to give them some kind of characterization I don't think we've quite got a handle on who's who is amongst the coalition I

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 so do their relations with other people. And yet recommendation system after recommendation system continues to miss the boat. It continues to try to predict what I need based on some past characterization of who I am, of what I've already done.

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 lexicon you can have even more fun with the language and casteth in the language I developed for Syfy's defiance I used linguistic evolution as a characterization tool as a way of basically giving insight into the

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 But that characterization of seawater desalination as being a nonstarter is hopelessly out of date. We've made tremendous progress in seawater desalination in the past two decades. This picture shows you

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 is a in some ways a fair characterization but it's also important to note these are totally fascinating animals that are completely and perfectly adapted to their lifestyle of feeding just on blood

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 that you might be surprised how critical we are to your histories and future. So, engage us in conversation; discover who immigrants actually are, and see us apart from characterizations