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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.
The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.
I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.