Alan Lightman Quotes, Character Quotes, Giving Quotes

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Religion Quotes

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Plot Quotes

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.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Agony Quotes

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Support Quotes

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Character Quotes , Lawyer Quotes

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Country Quotes , Character Quotes

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Typical Quotes

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character Quotes

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Hero Quotes , Character Quotes

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Experience Quotes

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Character Quotes , Artist Quotes