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“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.”

Want Humans Character Use Understanding Imagination Simple Perception Essence Observation Fancy Comparison Association Contrast Extensions Human Experience Simile Employing

Author:Norton Juster

“Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.”

Heart Character Broken Type Perception Bunch Meg

Author:Dean Cain

“The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.”

Thinking Character Television Perception Predictability

Author:Lucy Liu

“I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.”

People Different Character Acting Roles Drama Perception Relate Interpretation Grey Flawed Concealing

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”

“Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.”

People Firsts Looks Heart Character Girl Interesting Poor Cases Changed Bears Perception Understood Embrace Silly Educated Delicate Pale Subtlety Interesting Characters Silly Girl

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.”

Character Given Interesting Perception Dawn Hopeful Disappointed Yearning Given Up Momentary Interesting Characters

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”

Made Character Facts Felt Interesting Numbers Design Fine Perception Dignity Engaged Agony Exquisite Incessantly Interesting Characters Dissecting Scalpels

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.”

Kind Character Feelings Sound Common Elements Judgment Perception Common Sense Success In Life Politeness Tact Sound Judgment

Author:Charles Simmons

“I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.”

Knows Real Character Guy Lines Acting Emotion Know How Perception Bills Extras Sense Perception

Author:John C. Reilly

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.”

“I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does your life cross over into that character, or what's an angle on this that might challenge the status quo? It's just a great journey as well as an education. You're constantly being educated - it's like I'm back at school and making up for lost time.”

“I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.”

Persons Hard Play Character Behinds Fame Perception Despite Hard Times

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.”

May Character Reader Perception Originals

Author:Stephen King

“There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.”

Kind Character Facts Voice Imagination Common Fiction Talking Greater Perception Claims Distance Narrative Distribution Non Fiction

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?”

Ifs Thinking World Character Certain Left Existence Perception Complaining What If Privileged Strength Of Character

Author:Laura Marling

“There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.”

“There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic reality. Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he's capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world. He's not psychotic, but I think ultimately this solipsistic reality will be the source of his removal from the presidency.”

Thinking World Mean Country Character Reality President Dangerous Perception Capable Protection Focused Psychological Psychotic Removal

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“During the Reagan eighties, the idea that money was a good thing - it was good to be rich; that wealth was a reflection of your character. We see this today in perceptions of Donald Trump: the idea that money is an expression of success and even goodness. I compare that with my dad's generation, where the American Dream was about giving your kids a better life, but not just in material terms. The American Dream was also about doing something good in the world. The home was at the center of the dream, but home also represented community, shelter, and stability for your family.”

World Giving Character Home Dream Kids Today Term Community Wealth Rich Goodness Perception Reflection Good Things Compare Our Family Stability American Dream Better Life

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. And if you give too much away, you have nothing to take for yourself and put onscreen. If people feel like they know you too well, they won't be able to indentify with the character you're trying to portray. Or they'll feel that you're just playing yourself, and then you just become a personality actor. And that's the death of any actor.”

People Giving Trying Important Sometimes Character Personality Perception

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Character Certain Felt Roles Industry Perception Shakes

Author:David Schwimmer

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.”

Character Natural Equal Perception Discernment Quickness Penetration Niceties

Book:Persuasion - Jane Austen

Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen

“Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.”

Mind Persons Character Body Form Language Existence Disease Perception Doctors Reactions Entity Units Tangible

Book:The Camera My Mother Gave Me

Source: The Camera My Mother Gave Me

“The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception.”

Way Humans Two Character Facts Individual Natural Objects Activity Perception Historical Senses Perceive Organs Passive Two Ways Receptive Human Activity

Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.”

Needs Writing Mean Character Seems Happens Order Events Reader Scene Perception Empathy Happenings Reflection Access Apathy Unwise

Author:John Ciardi

“In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.”

Character Novel Ego Perception

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.”

Men Wells Children Character Feelings Parent Teacher Objects Taste Perception Aim Sentiments Formation Harmonious Curb Propensity Dormant Parents And Teachers

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections”

Source: Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason

“Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.”

Ifs Men Said Ideas Self Character Wisdom Success Peace Ability Decision Emotion Effects Perception Worthy Reputation Savior Immense Self Perception

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”

Knows Character Perception Thrive

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.”