Quotes about character
character impulse steady
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. Charles Henry Parkhurst
character names personality
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia? Charles Handy
character grace moral
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit. Charles Hodge
character hypocrite men
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. Charles Horton Cooley
character way looks
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.
character cold-mountain foul
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical Charles Frazier
character thinking helping
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
character violence violent
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. Bob Brown
character plot looks
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots. Billy West
character lines action
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character Billy Wilder
character thinking cartoon
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. Bil Keane
character people suffering
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. Bessie Head
character emotional interesting
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble Beth Henley
character soul ugly
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character. Beth Moore
character giving purpose
We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
character destiny compassion
God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!
character writing discipline
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else. Bernard Malamud
character two plot
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.
character built
Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. Bill Watterson
character ideas two
If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.
character stereotype plastic
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.
character writing trying
What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
character men historical
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. Bob Hoskins
characters compelling fascinated interested job
It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them. Nic Pizzolatto
characters hard mysterious within
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen. Michelle Paver
characters drop familiar hear incredible pin points watching
Watching (the film) with them is really this incredible experience. They are so familiar with the characters and the tone, you could hear a pin drop at some points in the movie. Sean Maher
character piece preserve
We've been able to come up with a piece of legislation that is going to preserve the character of our community,
character program promise room tougher toughness weight work
We're going to get back in the weight room to work on toughness and character. I promise we'll be tougher and I promise we'll get this program back to where we all want it. Tom Izzo
character soon team
We're going to find out real soon what the character of this team is.
character charm dislike dog flu hal impressed laugh near sick southern stopped took trying
When we first met, I was so impressed with him. But Hal took a dislike to me, just like his character in the play. Probably my Southern politeness, which he thought was kind of phony. It was only near the end of the shoot, when I was sick as a dog with the flu and I stopped trying to charm him, that he got over that dislike, and we started to laugh together. Dixie Carter
character found guys last looks step
We found out a lot about our character last year. We found out we had guys who could step in for guys who got injured. It looks like it's going to play out like that again.
characters substance
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. Jonathan Miller
characters lots series
We're going to make another series with lots of new characters and old characters together. David Walliams