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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.
embarrassing spots
It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot. Bess Truman
embarrassing humans
How embarrassing it is to be human. Kurt Vonnegut
embarrassing-questions answers embarrassing
There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers. Carl T. Rowan
embarrassing-questions justice answers
There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.
embarrassing seems kinder
It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder. Aldous Huxley
embarrassing made
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing. Daniel Clowes
embarrassing
I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it. Dakota Fanning
embarrassing danger uncertain
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting Jurgen Habermas
embarrassing-questions answers problem
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected. Mircea Eliade
embarrassment muscles huge
If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge. Brent Weeks
embarrassment dies indignity
nobody ever dies of an indignity. Elizabeth Bowen
embarrassment states englishmen
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. Colin Firth
embarrassment involved
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. Friedrich Nietzsche
embarrassment made embarrassed
I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed. Gwyneth Paltrow
embarrassment remembered died
But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time. Meg Cabot
embarrassment
What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. Marilynne Robinson
embarrassment vulgar producers
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. Christopher Hitchens
embarrassment
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. Tony Snow