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“The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.”

People Country Character Women Moral Influence Conditions Pure Manners Enlightened Enlightened Society

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.”

Firsts Humans Important Character Home School Human Beings Moral Principles Worst Training Endure Cease Manhood

Book:Character

Source: Character

“If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.”

Ifs Character Lost Left Saving

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.”

Character Difficult Genuine Articles Mistaken Counterfeit

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character.”

Knows Feels Kind Character Dream Stars Rocks Hair Lifestyle Innocent Destructive Over It Wow Cartoon Rock Star Cartoon Character

Author:Pamela Anderson

“The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.”

Ifs Art Character Artist Art Is Originals Works Of Art Infusion

Author:Austin O'Malley

“You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.”

Needs Character Solitude

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.”

Character Worst Talent Judging

Book:Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

“Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.”

Want Stills Book Ideas Sometimes Character Talking Clear Calling Pages Fifty Sixty

Author:Joan Didion

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

Years Two Different Character Three Wise Journey Events Ego Distance Versions Leisure Looking Back Traveler Distracted Impatient Tease Different Characters Alter Ego

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.”

Men Heart Character Christ Sin Hell Weakness Raises Depth Triumph Gates Transgression Gates Of Hell

Book:Sermons preached in Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Manchester

“The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has invented for his characters - in the juxtaposition of those characters and in the lifelike ramifications of the ensemble they make: their density, their substantiality, their lived existence actualized in all its nuanced particulars, is in fact his thought metabolized.”

Character Facts Lying Existence Novelists Introspection Remarks Ensemble Plight Density Juxtaposition Ramifications

Author:Philip Roth

“'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'”

Men Humans Important Ideas Character Names Language Given Originals Obscure

Author:Laura Riding

“The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.”

Knows Character Easier Screens Convince

Author:Kevin Spacey

“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.”

People Art Character Social Pleasure Fiction Audience Painting Approach Majority Crowds Narrative Visuals Plot Melody Elites Rhyme Favour Sculpture Meter Excluded Elitism Edification

Author:Steven Pinker

“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”

“I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Wells Play Character Left Comedy Wife Written Worst Fine Critics Foolish Wit Tone Our Time Merry Distinctive Dreary Coarse

Book:Dramatic Essays

Source: Dramatic Essays

“There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.”

Men Self Character Young Effort Self Esteem Tasks Raises Accomplish Esteem Young Man Initiative Formation

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.”

Humans Character Found Force Battle Offers Glory Resistance Temptation Free Will Fierce Affliction Grandeur Ordeals

Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.”

Thinking Mean Character Motivation Months Couple

Author:Gregory Peck

“I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.”

People Thinking Want Looks Kind Character Evil Actors Seeing Risk Hopefully Looking Forward Psychopath Evil People Character Actors

Author:David Oakes

“There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.”

Character Actors Journey Voyages

Author:Richard Gere

“Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.”

People Ideas Character Stories Individual Tvs Perspective Series Intention Caught Good Ideas Caught Up Tv Series Individual Life Best Intentions Story People

Author:Anton Corbijn

“The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.”

World Way Want Character Space Quality Personality Higher Calling Comfortable Aspect Determined Higher Calling

Author:Will Smith

“I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across.”

Ifs Giving Long Play Character Care Able Hate Fun Roles Comedy Drama Directors Direct Give Me Don't Care Like Me I Don't Care Hate Me You Hate Me If You Like Me If You Hate Me

Author:Salma Hayek

“For me, I really feel like a character when I look like them.”

Feels Looks Character

Author:Blake Lively

“I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.”

People Thinking Want Writing Important Character Evil Believable

Author:Mark Russell

“You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.”

Trying Character Feelings Evil Morality Justification Lovable

Author:Mark Russell

“I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.”

Thinking Play Character Certain Values Actors Huge Degrees Presses Staying Target Radar

Author:Liev Schreiber

“Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.”

People Knows Character Humanity Struggle Elements Weakness Flaws Flawed

Author:Liev Schreiber

“In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.”

States Character United Quality United States Changed Unions Association 1960s Schooling Deterioration

Author:Milton Friedman

“My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.”

Thinking Knows Trying Character Problem Stuff Witty Erudite

Author:Anne Lamott

“I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"”

People Character Enjoy Like You Mouths My Friends Kitchen

Author:Miley Cyrus

“It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.”

Character Actors Chance Roles Stage Huge Understood Built Privilege

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.”

Thinking Made Stills Hard Character Action Interesting Study Sentences Hard Times Fascinating Cash Contradictory Interesting Characters One Sentence

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.”

Kind Ends Character Difficult Letting Go Finding Yourself Routine Define You Daily Routines

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.”

Writing Character Actors Lines Interesting Audience Fronts Television Conversation Comfortable Fantastic

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.”

Ifs Knows Trying Character Passion And Love Anything In Life Love And Passion

Author:Geoff Johns

“When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.”

Book Character Film Hours Minutes Compromise All The Best

Author:Channing Tatum

“You don't need to like any of the characters, as long as you can understand why and where they're from. Why do you need to like any of the characters in the movie? That's not how life is. You don't like everyone that you meet.”

Needs Long Character Life Is

Author:Channing Tatum

“I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with me. In Son of No One, I think I might have seven lines in the entire movie because everything is happening to my character.”

Thinking Character Might Lines Honest Son Happenings Seven Theme

Author:Channing Tatum

“I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.”

Way Character Jobs Actors Victim Realistic Insensitive

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them - and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them - feels successful to me. I think it's about believing in what you do.”

Thinking Feels Believe Littles Play Character Feelings Bits Term Successful Little Bit

Author:Channing Tatum

“For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.”

Ifs Important Character Stories Film Lucky Filmmaker Great Film

Author:Channing Tatum

“I don't have a preference for bad people, no. I have an interest in playing a broad range of characters. Obviously, I'm mostly identified with a character who is very responsible, very solid and very intelligent, but there are plenty of questionable characters in my past career. I'm interested in exploring theatricality and characters with some dimension.”

People Character Past Interest Careers Intelligent Responsible Plenty Range Dimensions Broads Exploring Preference Bad People My Past Questionable

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.”

Want Character Black White Race Concerned

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.”

Thinking World Important Character Fantasy Technique Grounded Relatable Great Character Fantasy Worlds

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.”

Knows Character Light Happens Film Turns Movement Sitting Theater Down And Screens Plot Enjoyable Movie Theater

Author:Christopher Nolan

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