Laozi Quotes, Character Quotes, Reality Quotes

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

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He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Horse Quotes , Character Quotes

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Religious Quotes , Character Quotes

Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess a better comprehension of its character than do these men who have only to deal with it in the field of literature.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Feet Quotes

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Character Quotes , Too Much Quotes

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

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In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

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What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Country Quotes , Character Quotes

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

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Tags : Aaron Stanford Quotes , Character Quotes , The End Of The Day Quotes

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Memories Quotes , Character Quotes

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

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Tags : Abbie Cornish Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Character Quotes

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

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