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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.
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
intense-moments solitude peppers
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown. Elijah Wood
intensely processes
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. Kenneth Branagh
intensely interested visitors
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am. Kerry Greenwood
intensely met people snob
I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private. Evangeline Lilly
intense episodes bunch
Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale. Callie Thorne
intense interest indispensable
Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it. Charlie Munger
intense match monday nice
We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight. Vicky Groat
intense role
Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional. Erika Christensen
intensely
I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do. Kent Beck