Paulo Coelho Quotes, Character Quotes, Mirrors Quotes

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

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The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Character Quotes , Favour Quotes

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

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

For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don't try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.

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Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Character Quotes

I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.

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Tags : Alan Tudyk Quotes , Character Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

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

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dream Quotes , Character Quotes

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Dream Quotes , Character Quotes

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

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

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Girlfriend Quotes , Character Quotes

But rules cannot substitute for character.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Character Quotes

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Character Quotes , Psychology Quotes

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Believe Quotes , Character Quotes

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Littles Quotes

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

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

Men should be what they seem.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes