Alan Lee Quotes, Character Quotes, Legends Quotes

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Fate Quotes

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Air Quotes

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Character Quotes

The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

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Tags : Adam Driver Quotes , Character Quotes , Knowing Quotes

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Dream Quotes , Character Quotes

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Character Quotes , Healthy Quotes

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

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Tags : Aaron Stanford Quotes , Character Quotes , The End Of The Day Quotes

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Learning Quotes , Character Quotes

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Character Quotes , Destiny Quotes

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Character Quotes , Rumor Quotes

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Girlfriend Quotes , Character Quotes

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Character Quotes , Lasts Quotes

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Civilization Quotes

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Heart Quotes , Character Quotes

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Looks Quotes