#character

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

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If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters. ↗

— Randy Quaid

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