- Nov 07, 2020
Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020