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The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Author Becoming Consequently Figure
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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Anyone AnyoneElse Because Characters
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

Always Away Bad BadGuys
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Person reveals Character Joke Resents
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Falls Character Man Badly
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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Being Character Get IThink
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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.

Perfectly Constructively criticize Public officers
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
About Begins Book Care
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Life Filling Invent Write
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
About Character Me Playing
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

About Affinity Am Characters
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

About Block Characters Could
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

Biggest Characters Essentially Movie
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Character Doing First Gonna
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Away Behind Business Character
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A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

Global economy Free movement Goods Services
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The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Greatest legacy Children Money Faith
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Age Character Construct Does
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Character Clue Complexion Fact
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Always Character Complaint Cowardly
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

About Cant Characters Decorum
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Real freedom Mastery Knowledge Historic conditions
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Character Faith Fear Hope
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None of my characters have really had jobs.

Characters Had Jobs None
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Play safe Sex Picked Untrue
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Recapture Freshness Vision World
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Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.

Men Funny characters Something
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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education Object Character
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I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

Am Battle Being Camera
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Characteristic Fewer How Improved
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Action Alive Author Before
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Because Born Character Created
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Strength Character Work Home
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Character Determination Incident
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What you stay close to affects your character. Be very careful what and who you are close to.
Character Very careful Stay close Who
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Character Consists Fourth Third
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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Characters Defined Explanation Feast
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Act Character Destiny Habit
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Character Comedy Enough Good
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One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Because Capital Characteristics Cultural
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