I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for… — Grimes Copy Share Image
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way will the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I always feel like you can take a genre that has a familiar structure to it and then reinvent it as a… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
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These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the… — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character. — Henry John Heinz Copy Share Image
I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the… — Arthur Dobrin Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image