Top character Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Sebastian Horsley
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
- Sebastian Horsley
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Image of Mother Teresa
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
- Mother Teresa
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Image of Bruce C. Hafen
The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character
- Bruce C. Hafen
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Image of Michael Ian Black
I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.
- Michael Ian Black
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Image of Karen Joy Fowler
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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Image of Cinda Williams Chima
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
- Cinda Williams Chima
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Image of Mia Wasikowska
You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.
- Mia Wasikowska
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Image of Mia Wasikowska
There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just posture, and the way you walk, and the way you physically are. All of that says a lot about who someone is.
- Mia Wasikowska
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Image of Sivananda
The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.
- Sivananda
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Image of Noah Webster
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
- Noah Webster
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Image of Gene Tierney
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.
- Gene Tierney
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Image of Alyson Noel
True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.
- Alyson Noel
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Image of Hayden Panettiere
I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.
- Hayden Panettiere
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Image of Hayden Panettiere
It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.
- Hayden Panettiere
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Image of Gary D. Schmidt
A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.
- Gary D. Schmidt
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Image of John Bartholomew Gough
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
- John Bartholomew Gough
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Image of William Samuel Johnson
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.
- William Samuel Johnson
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Image of David Abram
It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.
- David Abram
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Image of Robert Charles Winthrop
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.
- Robert Charles Winthrop
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Image of Annie Besant
Thought creates character.
- Annie Besant
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Image of James Randi
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
- James Randi
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Image of Carl Schurz
I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.
- Carl Schurz
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Image of Herbert Butterfield
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.
- Herbert Butterfield
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Image of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The workshop of character is everyday life.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Image of Mike Mignola
I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.
- Mike Mignola
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Image of Mike Mignola
Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never any thought of this thing going on and becoming a series. If there's any common thing between these characters, it's that they weren't anything I was seeing in comics. Almost everything I've done is something I wish somebody else was doing, because it's what I'd like to read.
- Mike Mignola
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Image of J. I. Packer
The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
- J. I. Packer
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Image of Robert Greene
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.
- Robert Greene
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Image of Diana Nyad
When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.
- Diana Nyad
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Image of Woodrow Wilson
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
- Woodrow Wilson
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Image of Dennis Prager
Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
- Dennis Prager
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Image of Wentworth Miller
I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.
- Wentworth Miller
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Image of Charlotte Bronte
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Image of Liev Schreiber
I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
- Liev Schreiber
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Image of Liev Schreiber
I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.
- Liev Schreiber
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Image of Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I guess I've just gotten to the point where I don't want to be bored by the characters that I play, and I don't want to feel like I'm having to make something more interesting or I'm having to force something that's not really there on the page.
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Image of Pierre Bonnard
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
- Pierre Bonnard
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Image of Peter Brook
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.
- Peter Brook
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Image of David Friedrich Strauss
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.
- David Friedrich Strauss
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Image of Alison Goodman
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
- Alison Goodman
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Image of Milo Ventimiglia
I think with actors, we tend to get rid of characters - and not get rid of them as in discard them or throw them away, but it's just that you take that jacket off because you're going to be putting a different jacket on.
- Milo Ventimiglia
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Image of Milo Ventimiglia
I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an actor, not many people get to see him turn that character on, they don't understand that he's playing a role.
- Milo Ventimiglia
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Image of Edward Albee
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
- Edward Albee
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Image of Guy Ritchie
I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.
- Guy Ritchie
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Image of Michael Sheen
I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.
- Michael Sheen
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Image of Michael Sheen
In terms of how prudish Americans were in the '40s and '50s, I have absolutely no idea. I do know about the character that I play. And I don't think it's about being prudish. I think it's about trying to balance a sense of control in this man's life.
- Michael Sheen
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Image of Jessica Mitford
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
- Jessica Mitford
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Image of Walter Jon Williams
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.
- Walter Jon Williams
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Image of Paul Rudnick
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.
- Paul Rudnick
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