If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character… — Amy Hoggart Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a… — Khaled Hosseini 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
My take on people and on the characters I play in Transsiberian, the role you're looking for, is that everybody is more… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann 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
I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him. — Goldust Copy Share Image
'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to get any movie made, let alone a character story. Even with big stars, which we had, there… — Sacha Gervasi Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I’m quite flirtatious with anyone. Some people, because I’m playing a gay character, get quite nervous. And I have to reassure them.… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY… — Mark T. Barnes Copy Share Image
Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Or, theater is for actors as cinema is… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Someone once told me, in all his infinite wisdom, beauty, is only skin deep. I of course, looked deeper, and found, where… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film… — David Robert Mitchell Copy Share Image
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image