The Five Heartbeats/cast and Characters

Famous quotes containing the words cast and/or characters:

    “Has he all that the world loves and admires and covets?—he must cast behind him their admiration, and afflict them by faithfulness to his truth, and become a byword and a hissing.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that’s basically a conservative view of life.”
    —Jane Smiley (b. 1949)