African Spir Quotes

The supreme blossoming of character lies or reside in renounciation or renuncement and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)

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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
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• 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
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• 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
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Problems
  • Self

• For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Want
  • Try

• I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Self

• I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Help
  • Free

• There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Different
  • Women
  • Character

• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Together
  • Memory
  • Self

• Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Best
  • Self
  • Performance

• My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Character
  • Challenge

• Your character, Apollon Zamp, is marred by a certain paltriness of spirit, a diffused universal distrust which I truly deplore.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Character

• Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Music

• My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Lion

• If the bond between a husband and his wife is strong, then I think they complete each other, and the relationship also survives longer.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Strong
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

  

  Colin R. Davis
  • Success
  • Celebrity

• The supreme blossoming of character lies or reside in renounciation or renuncement and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)

  

  African Spir
  • Character
  • Self
  • Renounciation