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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
modern poet should
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia
modern
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. Dan Stevens
modern apprentice
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Barry Commoner
modern-life natural chemicals
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production. Aubrey McClendon
modern tweak
We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients. Mike Dargani
modern-life may chiefs
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. Kurt Vonnegut
modern tinker
To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.
modern poetry-is watersheds
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Robert Morgan
modern outside presidency turned
When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.
morals position purity standard women
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. Charles Eastman
morals
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe. David Harsanyi
morals
no shame, no humanity, no morals and no principles.
morals roads turns
Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.
morals public
The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'
people eating-disorder body
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. Carre Otis
people ends process
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. Carol Roth
people technique should
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. Carol Kane
people stuff-happens critical
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
people source materials
They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences. Carol Leifer
people concerned
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. Carol Shields
people want bills
All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt. Carol Moseley Braun
people parent trying
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
people ordinary would-be
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do. Carlos Beltran
womanly
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real. Kate Winslet
woman
She was a woman very out of her time, Hilary Swank
woman women
Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
woman women
It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.
woman
The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. Oriana Fallaci
woman women
You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.
woman
He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful. Traci Bingham
womanhood
Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you. Laura Marling
woman wonderful
It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.