Barack Obama Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Character Quotes

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

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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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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

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It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.

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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

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

I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.

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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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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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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Character Quotes

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Character Quotes

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Hero Quotes , Character Quotes

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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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Character Quotes

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes