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“As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.”

Ifs Persons Character Actors Figures Scripts I've Learned Thieves Detectives Prevailing Idiosyncrasies

Author:Octavia Spencer

“To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.”

May Levels Genius Focused Eccentricity Quirks Idiosyncrasies

Author:Darold Treffert

“All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it's too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements." That's right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.”

Thinking Enough President Dangerous Direct Disaster Flight Sophisticated Idiosyncrasies

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain.”

Painting Habit Letting Go Liberating Idiosyncrasies

Author:Caio Fonseca

“When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.”

Different Girl Individual Unique Stuck Idiosyncrasies

Author:Marc Jacobs

“The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.”

My Own Embrace Idiosyncrasies Brittany

Author:Brittany Murphy

“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”

People Wells Book Shows Suits Show Me Idiosyncrasies Place And Time

Book:The Solitary Summer

Source: The Solitary Summer

“Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.”

Thinking Knows Giving Laughing Determined Do You Know Choke Idiosyncrasies

Book:The Nonesuch

Source: The Nonesuch

“His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'.”

“In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.”

Men Faces Certain Culture Community Behavior Tradition Mask Civilized Customs Conform Idiosyncrasies

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”

Love Believe Love Is Miracle True Love Mood Idiosyncrasies

Author:John Cowper Powys

“The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.”

Desire Successful Morality Definitions Revenge Being Successful Idiosyncrasies

Book:Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What

Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What

“People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.”

People Persons Together Interesting Band Boring Introvert So Boring Idiosyncrasies

Book:POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Source: POPism: The Warhol Sixties

“I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.”

“When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.”

Sometimes Sleep Clothes Naked Idiosyncrasies Oddballs

Book:Ash Wednesday: A Novel

Source: Ash Wednesday: A Novel

“Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.”

“Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.”

Humans Certain Groups Idiosyncrasies

Author:D. L. Hughley

“The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.”

People Persons Different Film Talent Keys Directors Different Peoples Idiosyncrasies

Author:Felicity Jones

“Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.”

Culture Results Habit Conflict Instinct Complicated Deceit Reverence Cowardice Ecology Adjustment Incomplete Civilisation Disagreeable Idiosyncrasies Deep Ecology

Author:Sigmund Freud

“It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”

Men Imagination Pleasure Creativity Difficulty Curious Gambling Idiosyncrasies

Book:The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

“The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.”

Embrace Who I Am Idiosyncrasies Brittany

Author:K. D. Lang

“Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.”

“Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.”

Self Sometimes Used Marriage Partners Used To Be Complexity Woven Irritating Endearing Idiosyncrasies

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.”

Ifs World Enough Able Lines Harmony Noise Mess Data Regularity Idiosyncrasies

Author:Esther Duflo

“It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.”

Mind Kind Character Bigs Deals Scary Charming Big Deal Woody Idiosyncrasies

Author:Radha Mitchell

“One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.”

“White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.”

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.”

Made Character Names Individual Common Opinion Childhood Prejudice Newspapers Common Sense Idiosyncrasies Thoughtlessness

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.”

People Way Culture Fun Audience British Revealing Reflecting Idiosyncrasies

Author:Jim Broadbent

“I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.”

World Years Night Sports Growing Up Growing Huge Theater Chicago Norm Geek Midwest Idiosyncrasies Pippin

Author:Johnny Galecki

“Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.”

Way Solitude Breeding Whim Relish Idiosyncrasies

Author:Caroline Knapp

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