“Impossible choices, and I had to start making them. Little trades, like chips at your morality--strip away what you think you're supposed… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Silat is like kung fu, but close combat, and it has its own traditional character. In a lot of movies in Indonesia,… — Iko Uwais Copy Share Image
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“If you want your sins to be “covered” by the Lord (Ps. 32.1), do not parade your virtues before others. God will… — Thomas Mitrakos Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“In this country, it is not the highest virtue, nor the heroic act, that achieves fame, but the uncommon nature of the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
I'd like to have thicker hair. I was in 'What The Butler Saw' and at the beginning the character has got long,… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
There is something very exciting when you're playing a villain. You're being a rebel within the story because you are breaking the… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
It's much easier for me to think in terms of character movement and emotion and story rather than, 'What are some wacky… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I think sometimes actors are drawn to good television because you have more time to sell it, you have more time to… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's this character, Theo Galavan, who becomes the ringleader for the revolution of villainy in the city of Gotham. He becomes this… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Guard your reputation. Develop your character. Defend your honour. Preserve your legacy. The more wise things you say, the wiser you appear.… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think artificial intelligence will likely change the character of warfare, and I believe whoever masters it first will dominate on the… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
Well you know, the big trick with 'Saw,' the sleight of hand that you have to pull off is that - spoiler… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Dubbing is an important part of acting, and I feel complete only when it's my voice that is heard. Having essayed the… — Radhika Pandit Copy Share Image
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am… — Kassie DePaiva Copy Share Image
If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
