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“Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!”

Ifs Men Character Would Be Rights Equal Cease Folly Detrimental

Author:Ernestine Rose

“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”

Men Writing Character Mother Father Parent Nice Reader Gentle Supportive Colorful Nice Man

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.”

People Men Looks Character Guy Tough Built Toms Cruise

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.”

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Author:Rachael Taylor

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.”

Thinking Men World Writing Kind Character Would Be Actors Enjoy Interesting Deals Males Tendencies Really Interesting Interesting Characters Storyline

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.”

Men Character Mets Only Time X Men Magneto

Author:Grant Morrison

“Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.”

Men Way Character Actors Brands Profile Character Actors High Profile

Author:Alfred Molina

“Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'”

Men Want Character Use Would Be Kids Scripts Fats Parks Attorney Mayors Imposing Pompous

Author:Fred Melamed

“My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.”

Men Whole Character Animal Acting Backgrounds Fats Suits Costumes Diagrams Overlapping

Author:Allison Williams

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

Men Character Spirit Christ Circumstances Calling Behalf

Author:A. B. Simpson

“Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.”

Men States Character Political Found United United States Ambition Independence Traits Distinguished Manly Candor Great Character Political Ambition Independence Of Thought

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.”

Men Character Political Economy Industry Activity Skills Property Ballots

Author:Booker T. Washington

“We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.”

Men Ideas Character Building Assimilation

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”

Men Feels Years Character Left Generations Youth College Delight Debt Association Payment Fraternity Younger Generation Formative Years

Author:Newton D. Baker

“I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.”

Men World Believe Character I Believe Born Ideals Perfection Every Man

Book:Heart of Man

Source: Heart of Man

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

Men Way May Different Character Hands Might Spirit Turns Source Built Agony Fabric Humiliation Straws

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.”

Men Years Character Father Nations United Integrity United Nations Reproach Impeccable

Author:Kojo Annan

“We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.”

Men Character Leadership Capacity Willingness Select Overload

Author:Clarence Benjamin Jones

“The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.”

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Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.”

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Author:Abu Bakr

“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

Ifs Men Giving Character Lying Practice Honest Ill Reports Deceit Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”

Source: The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition

“A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.”

Men War Character Science Left Nations He Man Depends Bounds

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.”

Men Character Judging Ridiculous

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.”

Thinking Men World Persons Character Reading Results Cases Extremes Betrayal Betray Distrust Knowledge Of The World

Author:Joseph P. Farrell

“You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.”

Men Character Choices Sports Pressure Under Pressure

Author:Winston Churchill

“When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.”

Men Character Faces Differences Stranger Hypocrisy

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Persons Character Asks Hero Worship Admire Truest Hero Worship

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.”

Men Character Would Be Existence Materials Circumstances Creatures Mark One Man Architect Bricks Palaces Warehouse Mortar Villa Bricks And Mortar

Book:The Works of Goethe

Source: The Works of Goethe

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