I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
“It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.”
“Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.”