Character Quotes - Page 24

• Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Talking, Trying

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time.

  Richelle Mead

  Firsts, Nephilim, Sesame Street

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• Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

  Hugo Hamilton

  True Character

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• I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Giving, Faults

  Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.7

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• The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

  Lorrie Moore

  Self, Play, People

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• My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

  Francoise Sagan

  Sides, Enough, Pleasure

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

  Steve Wozniak

  School, Shapes, Electronics

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• Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

  James Joyce

  Night, Drug, Age

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.81, e-artnow

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• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.67, Penguin

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• And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

  Russell Brand

  Swans, Ugly Duckling, Ducks

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• I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Giving, Political

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• The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Courage, Men, Energy

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  Bob Woodward

  Scandal, Complicated, Novel

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Achievement, Done, Impulse

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.412, Thomas Hardy

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• The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, Hero

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• I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

  Carrie Fisher

  Fictional Character

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• The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

  Milan Kundera

  Borders, Possibility, Novel

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  A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

  Arthur Miller

  Challenges, Causes, Kind

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.281, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, People, Earth

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• A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

  Donald Miller

  Want Something, Overcoming, Stories

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.48, Thomas Nelson

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• But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wise, Men, Roots

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• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Age, Popular Song, Literature

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.29, Booklassic

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• The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Creative, Style

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• We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Giving, Goal

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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