To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“The big moment in the medieval myth is the awaking of the heart to compassion, the transformation of passion into compassion… St.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The men and women on death row have some combination of bad genes, bad parents, bad environments, and bad ideas (and the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The one thing I have never been comfortable with in the modern presentation of character - and it may have changed, this… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I was lucky I guess. My main job was done when I finally found Ben Whishaw and knew that there was someone… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Finally—this is what is most terrible of all—the concept of the good man signifies that one sides with all that is weak,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
To get a script like 'Death Proof' and to get cast in it just affirmed that I want to do character work;… — Jordan Ladd Copy Share Image
The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When I say myself, I don't mean just as a woman of color, as a girl who's growing up in the Bronx,… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
A real talent is a rare character having a judicious composition of latent and blatant level of personality traits and attributes like… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes...… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on… — Aaron Douglas Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My belief about performance capture is that it's a technology which allows actors to play extraordinary characters. But from an acting perspective,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Here's the Republican Party with round heels for anybody who says the right thing at the current moment. Regardless of their record,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of… — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Morality, in and of itself, is a damning thing. Self-righteousness is a damning thing. You'd be better off to be immoral and… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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