#personalities

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#adding #experience #other #own #people

Why didn't God apportion fine looks in equal accordance with deserving personalities? A horrid man ought to be horrid looking. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#looks #personalities #equality

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ↗

— Preston Manning

#american #canadian #definition #dislikes #fears

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p52 ↗

— Cheryl Hersha

#childhood-abuse #childhood-trauma #dissociation #government-corruption #government-cover-ups

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life-philosophy #lifestyle #personal #personalities

The nerve-system of many an Urning is the finest and the most complicated musical instrument in the service of the interior personality that can be imagined. ↗

— Otto de Joux

#personalities #imagination

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. ↗

— Aberjhani

#celebrities #famous-authors #famous-poets #gratitude #hope

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

#always #believed #confront #different #different personalities

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#always #comfortable #different #different personalities #element

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine. ↗

— Laura Bush

#fine #george #good #issues #know