Quotes about character
character greatness self
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn
character artist creating
Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture
character generosity teach
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
character choices want
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.
character men soul
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul. George Matthew Adams
character able should
Shows should just be able to be shows without hyphenating their lead characters. George Lopez
character stories world
I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in. George Lucas
character two plot
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
character guy samurai
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
character mind maps
Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do? George MacDonald
character reality play
Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off. Emily Osment
character dark dry
I like very dry humor. I dont like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy. Emily Rios
character tangible way
Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing! Emily Mortimer
character talking personality
The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper. Emily Post
character mirrors infinity
No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator. Emanuel Swedenborg
character snakes giving
When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake. Elvis Presley
character thinking personality
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance. Elliot Perlman
character games thrones
I was really attracted to doing Game of Thrones because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing. Ellie Kendrick
character years wings
The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition. Ellen Willis
character perfect incredibles
She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character. Ellen Hopkins
character imperfection
imperfections create character...
character shells ifs
You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it. Elizabeth Hand
character weather too-much
In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character. Elizabeth Goudge
character our-actions habit
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts. Elizabeth George
character emotional atmosphere
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
character writing stories
Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
character dark men
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
character people shapes
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
character plot challenging-the-status-quo
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
character creating creative
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
character decision choices
Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.
character independent men
God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life. Elizabeth Gaskell
character self people
I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.