Best standing & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.”

Character Stories Novel Position Standing Furniture Tedious Duration

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.”

Trying Character Courses Individual Standing Golf Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.”

World Way Persons Done Character Social Painting Models Standing Assuming Characteristics Deliberate Retaliation

Author:Alice Neel

“You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.”

Thinking Knows Littles Character Use Realizing Differences Interesting Deals Standing Crosses Twenties Symbolism Billboards

Author:Paul Schrader

“If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Persons Real Character Certain Liberty Standing Performances Weight Obligation Real Person Standing There Fictional Character Best Performance

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

“I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.”

Trying Long I Can Real Play Character Sleep Acting Long Time Standing Far Away Mars Nazi Gangsters Womanizer Cockneys

Author:Michael Caine

“Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.”

Trying Character Hours Lines Stage Development Standing Plot Character Development Storyline Plot Lines

Author:Jim Jefferies

“It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.”

Ifs Enough Character Wonderful Standing Notes Singers Connecting No Point Standing There Portraying

Author:Bruce Beresford

“In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.”

Character Military Arms Standing Army Soldier Militia Laborers

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.”

“I think the thing that made this stand out the most was just the fact that there's a lot more character to these characters. We see their back stories and we see their present situations, and that was a lot more interesting than just the regular procedural with four heads standing around a body, spelling it out for you. It's a lot more of a roller coaster ride.”

Thinking Made Character Facts Stories Body Interesting Situation Four Standing Standing Out Spelling Roller Coaster Coasters Present Situation Roller Coaster Rides

Author:Angie Harmon

“I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."”

Kind Self Character Film Artist Interest Cases Approach Standing Performances Jazz Musical Standing Out Influential Playwright Victorian Cabaret Brecht

Author:Andy Serkis

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Source: The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible

“The one on Fresh Hell is a little easier, because we make it up. It's a strange kind of hybrid of the real me and... Well, obviously it's me standing there, and it's my voice and my face, but it's also kind of filtered through Harry Hannigan's take on the character, the one he's writing.”

Writing Wells Kind Littles Real Character Faces Voice Hell Strange Easier Standing Hybrid Standing There Real Me

Author:Brent Spiner

“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.”

“When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.”

Looks Kind Done Character Remember Stuff Sleep Seeing Team Training Standing These Days Guarantees Digging Skating Basements

Author:Apolo Ohno

“Character is long-standing habit.”

Long Art Philosophy Character History Habit Standing

Author:Plutarch

“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”

“I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.”

People Thinking Character Care Earth Lord Standing Don't Care I Don't Care I Care

Author:Brigham Young

“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”

People World Heart Book Character Mystery Tree Worst Fields Standing Clouds Confusion Antidote Deep Inside Otherness

Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”

Persons Real Character Reading Felt Pages Standing Existentialism Printed

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.”

Men Character Heaven Water Fire Sea Standing Down And Threat Thrown Accusation False Accusation

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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