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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.
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary disease opponents
In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning. Chinua Achebe
vocabulary spirit common
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. Edward Sapir
vocabulary biting opinion
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Charles Frazier
vocabulary going-away trying
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
vocabulary language drawbacks
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
interesting information cost
The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
interesting cameras needs
I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting. Charlie Chaplin
interesting pieces surprise
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita Charles de Lint
interesting chinese thrive
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
interesting office being-ignored
Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous. Ricky Gervais
interesting france brilliant
Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant Brian De Palma
interesting listening levels
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. Brian Eno
interesting feelings might
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
interesting trying hitting
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.