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Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
Character Repeat Takes Talent
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Atoms Characteristics Incumbent Know
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People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Anger Believe Character Close
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Affects Also Aspects Because
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

Character Complacent Contemplate Even
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

Against Characteristic Constant Continuity
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Born Change Character Fingerprints
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Character Credit Establish Important
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Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
Character Endures Money Only
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

Action Actor Audience Believe
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Pine Item After World
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Tone Mind Gifted Author
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I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

Always Around Bars Being
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Achieved Ambition Cannot Character
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

About Anything Bizarre Characters
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even
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Character is what a man is in the dark.
Character Dark Man
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Adapt People Nervous Teams
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Character Country Duty FromTimeToTime
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Affirm Character Civility Commitment
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Acts Ambition Bad Character
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Betray Character Laugh More
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Character Foes Makes Man
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character Develops Itself Life
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Carbon Character Man Persistence
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Character Looking No-One Our
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership Potent Strategy Character
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To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

Kind Muslims Terrorists Worst
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The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Profoundly Atomic Universe Raindrop
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Character Sure Voice
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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Characteristics Chief Mob Quickness
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I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Always Behalf Characters Endure
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Character Disposition Mind Seen
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Character Continue Habit Long
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Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Place Means Stored Myth
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Wonder Radical Amazement Attitude
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Above Believe Book Characteristic
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You are not born with character. It is forged by your choices.
Born Character Forged You
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Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Manner Personality Manifestation Character
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Absence Based Character Peace
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Argument Big Character Director
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