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«Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters»
Author: Margaret Halsey
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Humility
| Keywords:
characters, defects, engaging, forte, gradually, harmless, length, mild, milder, mildest, shortcoming, shortcomings, staring, to seem
«I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.»
Author: Angelina Jolie
(Actress)
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Being Myself, characters, hid, Hidden Things, live out, mine, The characters, tried
«If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.»
Author: Dr. Seuss
(Cartoonist, Writer)
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characters, dinner, dinner party, invited, party, show up
«I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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answer for, cartoon, cartoons, cartoon characters, characters
«It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.»
«I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Character
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characters, desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identify, reach out, seemingly, The characters, verge, verges
«I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Choice
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acquaintances, better-looking, careful, characters, choice, enemies, Friends for, good looks, intellects, looks, too-careful
«I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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advocate, characters, countries, for the most part, Keep On Running, run away, traveling, who are you
«If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
bodies, characters, fictional, fictional character, for a while, heartbeat, heartbeats, practice, Real Character
«I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
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chancellor, Chancellors, characters, consideration, Marriages, Parties, the matter, without consideration
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