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It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

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• 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
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Stop

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Trying
  • Character
  • High

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Character
  • Professional
  • Actor

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

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Funny

• I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Think
  • Helpful

• Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Mistake

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • Money
  • Character

• My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

  

  Anastacia
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Character
  • Guy

• Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.

  

  Bjork
  • Time
  • Character
  • Nerd

• Actors are always identified with certain parts. To some, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather. That's just how it is, whether the character happens to be your own personal favorite role or not. You can't ever get away from it.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Character
  • Godfather

• I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Design

• It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Character
  • History

• If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Running

• Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.

  

  Alexander B. Morrison
  • World
  • Savior
  • Risen

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

  

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