It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
It's really cool to do, like, a 'Harry Potter' evolution because you can really take your time with the character development: really,… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“This observation, then, holds universally: But still one may be at some loss to account for it. It is not sufficient to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
With every character you play you're always trying to put facets of yourself into those characters. I think Asher, at the beginning… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel.… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified.… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be… — Bob Bergen Copy Share Image
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they’re going to… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“My question is, how and why would a being who has no soul, and no conscience, and no ability to judge between… — Jim Ford Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have… — Umar Copy Share Image
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens.… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find… — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the… — Elliott Yamin Copy Share Image
I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight… — Joseph D. Pistone Copy Share Image
In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
![“I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character [Porky Pig], couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.” quote by Bob Bergen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/315/bob-bergen-28639_adults_i-had-a-very-specific-goal-and-i-think-k_880285.jpg)
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