In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an… — Brigid Brannagh Copy Share Image
In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama played by good actors... Laura… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“He said that no matter whether you were describing the major character or a minor one, you had to be able to… — Agnes Nixon Copy Share Image
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions,… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more… — David Tang Copy Share Image
Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the films I do, part of the reason I like doing them is I'm not 100… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching… — Edward Mayhew Copy Share Image
“What's important about morality in politics is us. We own the chicken farm. We must give our bird-brained, feather-headed politicians morals. Politicians… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
Be one who influences and not instigates, be one who is pure and not prejudiced with focus on your character and not… — Annu Ratha Copy Share Image
When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial… — Fatima Sana Shaikh Copy Share Image
The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off.… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in… — Randy Cohen Copy Share Image
With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character… — Ted Baillieu Copy Share Image
A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
