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- 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
- Life
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
- People
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I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?
- Struggle
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
- First-Person
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
- Moving On
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
- Humor
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
- Personality
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
- Men
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
- Personality
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I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
- Like
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Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
- Circumstances
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Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020