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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.
vacation cities bloodlust
I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation. Bret Easton Ellis
vacation years interesting
Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year. David Allen
vacation fancy-cars albums
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations. David Knopfler
vacation offering august
During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey. Dave Barry
vacation mind mouths
Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime. Buddy Guy
vacation made lots-of-money
Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money. Chevy Chase
vacation animal average
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. Barbara Kingsolver
vacation perfect goes-on
The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation. Ben Schwartz
vacation perfect-days pals
My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.' Ben Stein
seriously
Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do. Stephen Colletti
serious bits
As you get older, you get a bit more serious. Bryan Ferry
serious-business serious
An annuity is a very serious business. Jane Austen
serious comedy kind
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. Alan Arkin
serious sincere
Don't be serious, be sincere. Chetan Bhagat
serious actresses burden
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails. Cher
serious crime negligence
In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime. William Shakespeare
serious
We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff. Richard Caborn
serious repercussions
Repercussions are serious and they will take you places. Bryan Clay