It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's important for the character, over the course of six years, to have checked off all the different boxes of the things… — Matt Warburton Copy Share Image
“The most interesting thing about the world is its fantastic and unpsychoanalyzed character, its wretched and gallant personality, its horrible idiocy and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not,… — Neil Druckmann Copy Share Image
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession… — Judah P. Benjamin Copy Share Image
We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
“A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden… — Miklós Bánffy Copy Share Image
“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially.… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to… — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
“Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when applied to an… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through… — Holly Branson Copy Share Image
I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
But with 'Newsrevue' I started doing some characters, and I just loved how you were in control. You could write something that… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“Philosophers and many proponents of cognitive psychology hold that moral judgments are within our control, and thus people who choose to commit… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene, or anything like that. I just try to put myself in… — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
There seems to be a feeling we need Klaus to be in 'The Vampire Diaries,' surely and partially because of the Klaus… — Joseph Morgan Copy Share Image