Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
It's really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end,… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Determination & courage to fight in adversity is virtue of strong man. To shed tears & put blame on time & fate… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually.… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
One of the things that upset me a lot, and I'm pretty open about it is people that challenge my character or… — P.K. Subban Copy Share Image
The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do… — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I guess when you take a look at the book 'Atlas Shrugged,' I think most people always like to identify with the… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
“Service is an expression of inner growth and development, It is the muscle-building of virtues. It is the barometer of inner development… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it… — Mariana Klaveno Copy Share Image
Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought” — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
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