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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
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"Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and want to see more of the character, they start buying the comic books. So a good movie helps the sale of the comic books and the comic books help the movie and one hand washes the other. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that comics will die out."

Book Character Moving
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference."

Character Strong Integrity
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion."

Character Doe Envy
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."

Character Opportunity Marriage
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"There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story."

Thinking Character Opportunity
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Nicholas Murray Butler Politician, Educator
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"There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners."

Men Character Education
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James Dean Actor
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"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."

Character Animal Pigs
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye."

Art Character Eye
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn."

People Character Simple
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