The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
My character Kabir Raichand in 'Haasil' is quite a brat. It's a very naughty character... very impulsive. He does a lot of… — Vatsal Sheth Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of… — James Bryan Smith Copy Share Image
“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a… — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom… — Gary L. Bauer Copy Share Image
I approach my interviews with the mindset of, exactly what are we selling? How can I sell it the hardest and the… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it.… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
My character isn't supposed to be flashy and be over-the-top. I'm supposed to be dirty in the ring. I'm supposed to kick… — Alexa Bliss Copy Share Image
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
There's a witch under this hair. The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way.… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character,… — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
'Raman Raghav' will break my image of cute boy-next-door. My character in the film is mad, demented, very aggressive. He is a… — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image