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«Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.»
«Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
alter, characters, developed, opinions
«Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.»
Author: Mel Brooks
(Actor, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
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Writers
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characters, hundreds, identities, names, personalities, relate, separate, skin
«All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me -probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.»
Author: Pedro Almodovar
(Film Director, Screenwriter)
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Movies
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approaching, autobiographical, characters, dimension, exhibitionism, first person, indirectly, movies, project, The characters
«All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.»
«All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
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be given, characters, directly, indirectly, intuitions, relate, sensibilities, sensibility, ultimately
«Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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approximate, approximates, characters, followers, imitate, pleases, The characters, unconsciously
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
«For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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abound, abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, blockheads, characters, coarse, coarser, coarsest, folks, go on, pleased, prosperously
«Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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characters, of age, scroll, scrolls, set down, The characters
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