My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character.… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of… — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist,… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
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Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself… — John Adams Copy Share Image
After 'Jessica Jones' came out, I started hearing firsthand from a lot of women who were so inspired by the character, who… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
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I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
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I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with… — David Grann Copy Share Image
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
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I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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