Epictetus Quotes
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.Epictetus
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
Yair Lapid -
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
Francesca Annis -
What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
Sally Hawkins -
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
Vicky McClure -
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham -
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.
Tatiana Maslany
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates -
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers -
I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
D. B. Sweeney -
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
Rainn Wilson -
I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
Tamra Davis -
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
Valerie June -
I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
Felicity Jones -
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley Jones -
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Adam Jones
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Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
William Watson -
My mum wanted me to go to university.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
Kristen Bell -
I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger -
There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
Olivia Wilde -
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.
Epictetus