“We are neither the pawns of devils, nor the enemies of virtue. We are simply curious, pragmatic, and rebellious -- too curious… — Justin R. Achilli Copy Share Image
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories.… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging,… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We're so obsessed with, 'Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak… — William Patten Copy Share Image
I always looked at it as, the character of Edge gives me complete free reign with no borders, where you can get… — Edge Copy Share Image
It's quite a layered character that I portray in 'Jalebi' and I needed to deviate and cut-off completely from the world to… — Rhea Chakraborty Copy Share Image
One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions,… — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
“Empathy is something you must create when the hero is introduced. Making your hero a victim in the middle of the movie… — Michael Hauge Copy Share Image
You need to be able to build a character, you need to have time, you need to have a microphone and be… — Maryse Mizanin Copy Share Image
People that have to say they are real are never real! You can not be real if you have to keep saying… — Merle Rutledge Jr Copy Share Image
The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
My mom. She was quite a character. Open-minded. It was a very small town, and she started her own business, manufacturing children's… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women… — Anita Briem Copy Share Image
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My character has got its own individuality after the 'Comedy Nights.' People recognize me as Palak. I'm quite happy that Palak has… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into… — John Hartford Copy Share Image
“There is something breathtakingly condescending, as well as inhumane, about the sacrificing of anyone, especially children, on the altar of 'diversity' and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
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