I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Any character, for me, always comes together in the hair, makeup, and wardrobe. Shoes especially. For some reason, shoes really do it… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Normally you don't have the benefit of preparing someone to pay homage to you and what you've done in your life. Usually,… — Usher Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,'… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality,… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play… — Mariko Mori Copy Share Image
My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before,… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“Tis the grand stupidity of our kind, dear Cutter, to see all the errors of our ways, yet find in ourselves the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
A parent of moral standing will never use their child to hurt others because they understand that at some point it will… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think, us as human beings, we hold multitudes and contradictions. We are the definition of a contradiction and that's what makes… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove - there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Football is quite easy when you're doing well and winning games. It's when things aren't so good and they get tough, that's… — Graham Potter Copy Share Image
In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I like to have a reason to change my hair. I'm not very good at saying, 'I think I'm going to do… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my… — Rick Yune Copy Share Image
I love wearing Converse or Vans and wear a lot of bombers or denim jackets. I'm also a bit of loser, so… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position… — Otto Ohlendorf Copy Share Image
When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies… — Joshua Leonard Copy Share Image
