Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
But, it takes some of the characters to some very dark places, and they start doing things that they might not do,… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even… — Jung So-min Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some… — Rory Culkin Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
It seems every bouncer, every bodybuilder wants to become a wrestler. Every day, people will come up to me and ask about… — Rocky Johnson Copy Share Image
When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Is power then,” said Vivaldi, “the infallible test of justice? Is it morality to obey where the command is criminal? The whole… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I was in rehearsal and reading the script and I was like, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait. I think I'm related to Data,'… — Isa Briones Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: 'Call the fire department,' 'Get your fire extinguishers… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history,… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Carmen is an iconic character. I think everyone in the world knows of the existence of the story and the opera, even… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
People tend to think of the quest as a sort of fanciful or fantastical form, but actually, I think it's pretty realistic.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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