“…We don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other… — Tartt Donna Copy Share Image
I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and… — Scott Hall Copy Share Image
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I had a G.I. Joe doll, and now, to see a recreation of my character as an… — Michael Dorn Copy Share Image
I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later,… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
That's the fun thing of casting a show. I'm a pretty strong believer that TV makes stars, not the other way around.… — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on… — Steve Valentine Copy Share Image
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself… — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
There is a general notion that playing a bubbly girl is undemanding and less challenging. But that's not the case. You need… — Genelia D'Souza Copy Share Image
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“In other words, the fact that every person has the ability to reason and discover natural law, and the divine rights that… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented,… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
It's so funny because, when the other world was being hatched and conceived, I just kept hearing, "Don't do that! That's a… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
When I start a movie, I already feel like I'm in it. I'm not a jobbing actor anymore; most of the films… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun… He… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo,… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil… — Sacha Gervasi Copy Share Image
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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