"A story is a character who wants something……" — Donald Miller

"A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it."

— Donald Miller

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235 Quotes by Donald Miller

Donald Miller has 235 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone.…
I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting…
There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and…
Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the…
I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much…
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character…
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God.…
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to…
If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into…
What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled…
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding…

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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