Alan Lightman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Character Quotes

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

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My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Character Quotes , Matter Quotes

Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Military Quotes , Character Quotes

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

We've been pretty successful over the years, not necessarily adding series regulars, but just bringing long-term recurring characters. In my opinion, it's sort of like as life goes, you have people that come in and out of your life.

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Tags : Aaron Korsh Quotes , Character Quotes , Successful Quotes

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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