Alan Ball Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

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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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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wise Quotes , Character Quotes

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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

We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Character Quotes , Answers 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

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Character Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Business Quotes , Character Quotes

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Character Quotes , Government Quotes

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Brother Quotes , Character Quotes

What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

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Tags : Adam Driver Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Character Quotes , Russia Quotes