#hara

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#i #i write #know #more #move

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#character #dyed #habitual #mind #soul

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#always #become #better #better actor #character

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#called #character #deserves #earns #gifts

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#censure #character #criticism #freely #i

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#backward #characteristic #communities #more #nationalism

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research. ↗

— David Baldacci

#both #challenges #characters #drawn #hard

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. ↗

— Christian Bale

#certain #character #else #embarrassing #embarrassment

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#be real #characters #fake #mask #moves

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#each #face #get #give #into