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Rainn Wilson Actor

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"You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property."

Writing Character Creating

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."

Character Perception Thrive

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Randy Harrison Actor

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"The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is."

Character Clubs Annoyed

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Terry Taylor Musician

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"Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness."

Mean Character Angel

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."

Men Way Character

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

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"Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution."

Character Important Resolution

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony."

Country Character Rocks

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed."

Character Law Names

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer

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"Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for."

Thinking Character Looks

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist

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"Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves."

Character Sports Opportunity

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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor

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"I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working."

Character Success Coffee

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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor

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"It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part."

Thinking Character Dream

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author

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"Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments."

Character Mistake Disappointment

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker

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"What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them."

People Character Technique

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker

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"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."

People Believe Character

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian

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"Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person."

Giving Character Acting

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

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"Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation."

Character Race Block

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Ruskin Bond Author

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"Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance."

Character Animal Unique

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher

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"If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast."

Men Character Angel

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

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"You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head."

Writing Character Intense

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