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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.
rocks giving sitting
This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
rocks chains heavy
I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.
rocks share remains
I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it. Alan Thicke
rocks mysterious-things differences
A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences. Alan Light
rocks balls looks
Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat. Brian Cox
rocks rock-n-roll geek
No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
rocks errors giving
I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor. Bret Michaels
rocks rock-n-roll deals
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it. Bret Easton Ellis
rocks glam-rock two
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. Brandi Carlile
choices justified introduction
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.
choices relation
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.
choices customers feeling good leaving stores themselves walked
We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made. Paul Clayton
choices want trouble
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. Agnes Repplier
choices actors playing-someone
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things. Aaron Tveit
choices president crystals
I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear. Charlie Crist
choices age dies
Each age has its choice of the death it will die. Charles Dudley Warner
choices accountability
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. Charles de Lint
choices fruit good-intentions
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. Charles Simmons