H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Life Quotes, Character Quotes

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Kings Quotes , Character Quotes

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

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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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The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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Success is the best builder of character.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

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I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

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Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Individual Quotes

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Honor Quotes

I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.

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WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Christian Quotes , Character Quotes

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Character Quotes , Humility Quotes