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We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God -- Elizabeth Gilbert
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. -- Jean Paul
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you. -- Sophie Marceau
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. -- Lin Yutang
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change. -- Maria Semple
I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. -- Kurt Masur
The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes. -- Michelle Dockery
I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright. -- Kevin Daniels
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing. -- Katey Sagal
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring. -- Christopher Lambert
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send. -- Paul Sadler
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery. -- John H. Reagan
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years. -- Angela Kinsey
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. -- Ella Maillart
Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice. -- Valorie Curry
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. -- Ibrahim Babangida
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture. -- Howard Hawks
The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human. -- Randeep Hooda
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something. -- George R. R. Martin
Habits change into character. -- Ovid
Our conduct will never change God's character. -- Bill Hybels
Change your character and your character will change you -- ABC
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. -- Barack Obama
Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change. -- Nicholas Young
people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character -- Chad Kultgen
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. -- Herbie Hancock
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. -- Juliette Binoche
By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality. -- Anton Corbijn
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. -- Bob Brown
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. -- Marcello Mastroianni
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. -- Kurt Masur
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood. -- Garry Kasparov
The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character. -- Nicholas Eberstadt
I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty. -- Susan Ford
I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character. -- Taya Kyle
As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it. -- Winona Ryder
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change. -- Eckhart Tolle
Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color. -- Rachel Scott
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. -- Samuel Smiles
I do not usually expect anything when I give, but a 'Thank You' can change my whole perspective about your character. -- Luimar Silva
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives? -- Nicholas Sparks
Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show. -- Lisa Edelstein
I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones. -- Peter Sarsgaard
Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it. -- Alexander Shulgin
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur. -- Giulio Douhet
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk. -- Leonid Shamkovich
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. -- Jesse Robredo
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. -- Jim Rohn
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? -- Chuck Palahniuk
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world. -- Michael Josephson
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. -- Plato
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery. -- John H. Reagan
In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically. -- Robert Towne
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. -- Juliette Binoche

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