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The character of the owners determines the destiny of the asset.

Asset Destiny Owners
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Honest Maintain Character Possess
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If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.

You Another Own Damage
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Again Age Character Like
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

Papers Marked School Character
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Vote Rifle Useful Depend
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Outlook Estimate Yourself Value
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Brains Matter Most Which
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Character Confidence Deliberate Faith
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I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Character Get Lines Mindset
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

Biggest Caliber Character Future
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

Characteristics Clarity Empowered Forgiveness
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Authentic Become Characteristics Create
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Act Am Character Goes
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

Character Characters Dumb Even
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Character Exact Growth Language
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I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Best Character Doing Go
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

About Again Almost Always
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On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Think Like Man Best
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

Believable Character Characters Find
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Cause Characters Flawed Gives
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
Change Characters Grow Make
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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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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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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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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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All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

About Actor Being Character
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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Accent Anything Been Character
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I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Because Characters Feel I Think
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Character Contemplation Matter Mind
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Ballpark Batman Character Crowd
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Also Character Dyed Habitual
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Am Cast Character Directors
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

Always Bit Characters Closed
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Action Any Characters Come
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

Alike Any Character Had
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

Any Bleed Character Creepy
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Adapting Been Character Has-Been
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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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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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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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