"It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved."
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"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
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"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
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"The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character."
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"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
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"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
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"The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education."
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"'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes."
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"Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character."
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"Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."
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"Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have."
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"Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience."
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"A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season."
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"Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate."
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
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"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
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"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control."
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"I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I'd better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer to NOT feel, NOT to let the world touch one."
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