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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.
emotional creative speed
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional. Carol Kane
emotional world earth
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. Charles Dudley Warner
emotional self brilliant
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. Charles Stross
emotion finding met peter power understand
When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance. Robert Stromberg
emotional thinking intellectual
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore. Ricky Gervais
emotional listening important
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. Brian Eno
emotional people levels
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
emotional moving
very emotional and very moving to be here to see these sites. Laura Bush
emotional interesting parent
I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene. David Schwimmer
experience opportunity people provide space ways
We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible. Eric Anderson
experience gained game good happens next played putting since valuable wait whatever whether
We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there. Anthony Davis
experience five fun guys plays solid staff
We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out. Chris Carpenter
experience far learning players specific taking
We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches. Zhang Ning
experience fastball good learning pitch tough whenever
Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.
experience information instead lecturing people reading talking
We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.
experience tells trying
We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.
experience
It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. Charles Caleb Colton
experience games played ready road
We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well. Tara VanDerveer
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction.
fiction offered side turned uses
When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain. Anita Diament
fiction love science stuff
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical. Tahmoh Penikett
fictional nonfiction piece shows stories work
My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture. Tom Bissell
fiction popularity programs
The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.
fiction
I don't read fiction at all. Brent Spiner
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
literary looking novels parties people problem spend time york
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman
literary publishers secretly wrote
I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. Tawni O'Dell
literary resisted saw time writer
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Ellen Potter
literary reasons writers
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. Jeffrey Eugenides
literary work
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. Andrea Hirata
literary robust seem serious struck
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux
literary quite scientific
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Ian Mcewan
literary people point
I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.
literary published terrible
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! Siri Hustvedt
particular terms thinking
When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization. Sibel Edmonds
particular privilege system weighed
There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.
particular remember several
She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her. Samuel L. Jackson
particular sundance
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story. Jill Soloway
particular
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there. Robert Mueller
particular point
Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star. John Keats
particular playwright
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. John Patrick Shanley
particular stage threat
must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate. Sergey Lavrov
particular
One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.
personality earning charisma
Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma Alan Sugar
personality cheerful matter
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. Charlotte Bronte
personality economics inseparable
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. Charles Edison
personality important followers
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn. Charles de Lint
personality style doe
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. Booth Tarkington
personal-accountability forgiving guilt
Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability. David D. Burns
personality looks world
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process. David Sanborn
personality important
In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there. Carolina Herrera
personality style dresses
A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.