When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema. — Kajol Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If I once cared for you, I want see you do better than before I met you. That shows the characteristics of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the… — Julie Carmen Copy Share Image
“We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinement, that actually… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Balanced service is a virtue to be cherished. There is to be time in our life to serve God, to serve our… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a… — Andreas Deja Copy Share Image
No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't… — Tony Vincent Copy Share Image
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Usually I approach to acting completely blindfolded. I read the script, I connect to the character, and then I try not to… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
“You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share Image
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“I do sometimes feel angry. Especially when guests are careless. When they forget that their actions have an impact on others, when… — Nita Prose Copy Share Image
In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I've worked with Lars von Trier on many films, and there's always a female character that's like an open wound - everything… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life… — Malcolm Gets Copy Share Image
Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes,… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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