Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?"… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do… — Roger Allam 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“In trying times, or in times of great moral crises, it is not political ideology - neither liberal nor conservative, progressive nor… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
I don't know if you hear this often but I would say The Razor's Edge (loosely based on a great W. Somerset… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm socially awkward. What draws me to playing socially awkward characters? I think they're interesting. I'm fascinated kind of by - I… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
Brad Pitt seems to have no problem getting parts that he wants, nor does Angelina Jolie. Not that I'm saying I look… — Diane Kruger 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously.… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
“Let us then, by all means, be proud of the virtues that we have not got; but let us not be too… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image