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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.
next ready weeks work
We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute. Chad Whitworth
next firsts miles
First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles. Alan Kulwicki
next prime
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8. Charlie Chaplin
next people process second telling
The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day. Michael Robinson
next moments next-time
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself. Ricky Gervais
next woman-suffrage suffrage
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. Susan B. Anthony
next creator hard
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly. Bram Cohen
next hazards moments
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next. Djuna Barnes
next want havens
Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go. Dhani Jones
firsts film amazing-experiences
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right. Carol Kane
firsts ancient goddess
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. Carol P. Christ
firsts elements investment
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
firsts speak goodness
Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
firsts events week
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Agnes Smedley
firsts counseling offense
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. Alan Thicke
firsts way thirds
First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere. Alan Shearer
firsts tvs program
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom. Alan King
firsts language programming
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. Alan Kay