Stephen Ambrose Quotes

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

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• Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
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• I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
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  • Head
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• I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
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  • Me
  • Name

• In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
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  • Hands-On

• I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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  • Think
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• I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Choices
  • Bird

• For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Look
  • First
  • Characters

• I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • United States

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• You just have to play the character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • You
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• I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Thought
  • President
  • Knew

• The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Character
  • Best
  • Crime

• I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Back
  • Republican

• Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Character
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• I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps in Nutty Professor II, I said, 'I'm going to try my hand at a female character.' It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Character
  • Hand

• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Character
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.'

  

  Claire Foy
  • God
  • Character

• Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Character
  • Fault
  • Voltaire

• Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally - every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It's like doing your own stunts.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Life

• All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Progress

• I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Marriage

• Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Character
  • Choices
  • President