"The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy."
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"I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!"
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"Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character."
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"If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free."
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"I have always said the success of the show has stemmed from our audience being able to relate to the characters on different levels - being based on the universally loved Arthurian legend is only a tiny part of its success - it's a story about acceptance and growing up. The breathtaking finale of this series leaves you with no doubt that characters have been on their journeys and had their stories told - it's completely the right time to draw our telling of the story to a close."
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"Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are."
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"Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world."
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"A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed."
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
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"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
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"The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected."
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"The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need."
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"Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation."
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"When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one."
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"I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks."
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"I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)"
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"It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past"
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"A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello."
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"I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas."
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"Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing"
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