Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
Gail Sheehy
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
Daisy Ridley
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
Frances Conroy
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
Jack Falahee
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
Hans Adolf Krebs
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
Carly Fiorina
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
Nadia Bjorlin
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I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
Barbara Hale
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
Eddie Redmayne
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
Famke Janssen
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
Sally Hawkins
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
Abigail Washburn
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
J. K. Simmons
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Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.
Warren Spector
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Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
Chris Hemsworth
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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
Elisabeth Moss
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We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.
John Pistole
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Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.
Jeaniene Frost
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
Honore de Balzac