we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character..
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough..
It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, th….
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by….
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a j….
Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral ….
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time..
People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity….
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell..
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my cha….
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment..
Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultan….
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My….
Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle..
Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is to ….
If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you c….
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc ….
I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks..
The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something w….
I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi..
I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!.