George Washington Quotes

The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

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• The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • She
  • Character

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Different
  • Character
  • Look

• 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
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Along

• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Know
  • Down

• At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Turn
  • Legal

• A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Individual
  • Dialogue

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Character
  • Way
  • Me

• I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Character
  • Running

• Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Character
  • Wings

• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • May
  • Character
  • Me

• I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Play
  • Dark

• If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Why
  • Character
  • Bad

• You just have to play the character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • You
  • Play

• I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

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

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • World
  • Guy

• As an entertainment journalist for over a decade, I travel to great places for work, from red carpets in Rio, movie premieres in London to celebrity sit-downs in Bora Bora.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Work
  • Great
  • Movie

• I love the way people dress at the races. I love people dressed to the nines during the day. That formal kind of daywear doesn't really exist anymore except at the races. Also I love the tuffs and the working classes being so hand in glove and relying on each other to make the thing happen.

  

  Bella Freud
  • People
  • Hand

• It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Long

• The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Firsts
  • Individual