Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it… — William James Copy Share Image
It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character.… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
“The title for this story comes from the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, who gave Part IV of his work Ethics the title Of… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the… — Bryan Bertino Copy Share Image
I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard.… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that… — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up.… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
“This necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form our newly arrived emigrants into society, the reciprocal blessing of which, would supersede,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It's really hard to make a good film; it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
It was our goal to dig into the characters and really try to find out why they think the things they think… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
I think Robert Altman could see things in me that I didn't know I possessed, which is really exciting. He also instilled… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice,… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
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