With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there… — Sandra Scofield Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect.… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But… — Sinqua Walls Copy Share Image
I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like… — Jim O'Heir Copy Share Image
If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's… — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
History is a conflict of two moral types - the predatory and the constructive - and these can be found in all… — Syed Hussein Alatas Copy Share Image
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
“The only truth is the truth of the now. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. There… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how… — Judith Light Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm someone's mom, but if I took the mom away, if I took Top Model away, like, who is Eva? Who am… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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