It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Acting. Whenever I am playing a character, I use my real life experiences, which puts me on the line of reliving some… — Allison Holker Copy Share Image
“...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
With The Help, I knew folks involved in the project peripherally. I wanted to audition for Hilly Holbrook and part of the… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I just look at the character and the arc of the character, and see if it's going to be challenging. We always… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job,… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
People generally fall into one of three groups:the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
“The poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree;… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
They didn't have a lot, but my grandparents taught me the important stuff: that hard work and character, matter. When I got… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end… — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and… — Henry Hancock Copy Share Image
I felt that 'English Vinglish' was tailor-made for me since I found my character Shashi so relatable. Her simplicity and sensitivity attracted… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
“True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
“To cultivate bravery and courage, ground yourself in your character values: Building a solid foundation of integrity and character will fortify your… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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