Alan Ball Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Character Quotes , Lasts Quotes

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Character Quotes , Chinese Quotes

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Children Quotes , Character Quotes

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

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Tags : Abraham Kuyper Quotes , Character Quotes , Church Quotes

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Character Quotes

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Firsts Quotes

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Passion Quotes , Character Quotes

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Character Quotes

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on Episodes. He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

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Tags : Adam Pally Quotes , Character Quotes , Gay Quotes

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes

I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

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

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Plot Quotes

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Littles Quotes

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Character Quotes , Government Quotes

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Home 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