I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it,… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy,… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come… — Robert Morneau Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“It had formerly been my endeavor to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person.… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters.… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“One morning when he was about thirteen, Den and I were in the barn doing the before-breakfast chores. I was in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's the interaction between those characters that really makes that movie as special as it is, and I'm proud to say, as… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
“The character traits which you do not appreciate about another person are also the very same tools that person has used to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot… — John Cho Copy Share Image
My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything.… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
“Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose? The answer is that we shall choose none. For it is clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled that Alice Medrich, one of America's premier bakers, has embraced teff, buckwheat, oat, and rice flours. She understands that these… — Shauna James Ahern Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
'Frasier' works because we stay focused on the idea that - how he continues to grow. It is not that you are… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard… — Sallust Copy Share Image
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