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“I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.”

Doe Wish Bits Party Personality

Author:Keira Knightley

“For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.”

People Wells Character Actors Wish Term Personality Weapons Intelligent Characteristics

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.”

Should Wish Loses Education Personality Judgment Originals Halls Warning

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.”

Trying Persons Kids Wish Felt Black Realizing White Roles Personality Models Green Role Models Yellow

Author:Michael Jordan

“Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.”

Seems Wish Sleep Attention Personality Election Developing Boredom Sickness Contests Polls Fever

Author:Norman Tebbit

“Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the truthseeking role. That's probably true of the other fields, too, but maybe more so of the personalities that gravitate toward psychiatry. They tend to care about people and wish to be helpful.”

People Wells Persons Helping Care Wish Goal Roles Fields Personality Sick Helpful Psychiatry Psychiatrist Clinicals Sick Person

Author:Park Dietz

“I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.”

Thinking Writing Different Sometimes Wish Imagination Personality Horror Not Interested Stem

Author:Dan Chaon

“I am interested in people, and I am interested enough in people that I want to be friends with a lot of people and know about their lives. So I'm not a hermit. I'm also interested in writing about other things. It goes on and on. I sometimes wish that I had a different personality. But then I would write different types of books.”

People Writing Book Different Sometimes Enough Wish Personality

Author:Lynne Tillman

“You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.”

May Mean Long Reality Lying Wish Doubt Personality Longing Prison No Doubt You Choose Conquest Relieved

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel