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" Quotes and Sayings About character

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Glory Nation Character Boyhood
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Actor Animals Boo Character
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Adventure Arrogance Belief Both
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Fame Vapor Accident Riches
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All-Around Any Around Character
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

Acting Always Art Art Form
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

Actor Basis Because Capture
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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Absolutely Actor Character Confident
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

Alone Before Century Character
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Aspects Building Character Educated
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Ideas Important Cover Hold
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You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

Able Characters Fall Fight
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Character Free Free People Impose
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

Above Britain Characterized Independence
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Character Conscientious Duty Energetic
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Am Animate Character I Am
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

About Built Celebrity Character
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor Acting Often Certain
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

Always Characters Hurts Love
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I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

Character Identify Instinctively Know
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Abraham Abraham Lincoln Carry Certain
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

Characters Complexity Duress Conflict
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Man Live Impervious Sadness
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I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Very obvious Incompetence Lack Common sense
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

More concerned Character Reputation Really are
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You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.

Failure Success Stop you Failure
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

Enjoy Job Create Character
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Make character Mean Watch Being made
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Men and women of vision, conviction and character are required to man key portfolios especially Finance, Petroleum and Power.

Men Women Conviction Character
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Nothing marks Character better Intelligence
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Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character

Everyone Makes mistakes Person deals Character
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Not only those we see as mad on the streets are mentally ill. The mental health issue is an interference in the natural state of mind and not a character problem.

Mentally ill Health issue Interference
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

My characters Passionate desire Rebellious
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

The beauty Character Achievements Aims
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I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Struggle Madness Positive aspect My character
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I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.

Pretend Character
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My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.

My grandmother Beautiful Incredibly stylish
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes.

In peace Prosperity states Individuals Better sentiments
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Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

Home Haven Love Honor
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
Pretty face Enough Catch Man
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Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say ‘this is him’.

Mandela Complex Aristocrat Royalty
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Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
Larger Life characters Make up World's population
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Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognize something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.

Story Has nothing My life Recognize something
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I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

Everybody Has different Personalities Motives
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Can't blame Writer Characters say
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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Your reputation What people Say Character
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Sports Teaches you Character Play
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