Aaron Sorkin Quotes, Character Quotes, President Quotes

I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.

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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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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

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Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

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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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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Character Quotes , Balance Quotes

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character Quotes

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Culture Quotes

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

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

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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