Good Character Quotes - Page 6

• I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

  Joan Leslie

  Character, Play

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• I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

  William J. Clinton

  Character, Ethical Standards, Presidential

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• I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

  Randy Quaid

  Character, Bigger Than Life, World

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• I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Character, Loss, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.

  Michael Pollan

  Character, Animal, People

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Character, Years, Two

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• I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Character, People

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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• I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

  David B. Coe

  Character, Magic, Fiction

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Differences, The End Of The Day

  "Serkis: Playing Virtual Parts On The Big Screen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 4, 2011.

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• God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

  John Ortberg

  Strong, Character, People

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• If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

  Mary McCarthy

  Prayer, Lying, Character

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.

  Laura Riding

  Character, Winning, Evil

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• The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

  Edwin J Delattre

  Powerful, Character, Self

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, AEI Press

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• We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

  Edwin J Delattre

  Character, Ignorance, Moral

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.

  Brian Tracy

  Running, Horse, Struggle

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• I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

  Michael K. Williams

  Writing, Character, Healthy

  Source: collider.com

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• If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Character, Views, Divergent

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (2014). “Spirit of Islam”, p.7, Goodword Books

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• All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

  Suzanne Collins

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

  Joseph Addison

  Hard Work, Character, Men

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• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Men, Office

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• Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Mind, Dry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.651, Ravenio Books

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• There are good characters and bad characters.

  Matt Stone

  Character, Bad Character

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dream, Hard Work, Character

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