"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
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"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
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"It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category."
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"For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters."
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"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
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"I want to play characters that are interesting to watch."
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"The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete."
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"The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently."
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"As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity.""
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"It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant."
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""You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it.""
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"I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning."
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"No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there."
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"You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen."
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"Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone."
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"Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it."
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"The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal."
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"The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing."
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"As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back."
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"I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you."
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