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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. -- Jessica Savitch
Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience. -- Jason Moore
In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. -- Hill Harper
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice. -- Edward James Olmos
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. -- J. C. Watts
We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are. -- Richard Madden
I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master. -- Chris Eigeman
The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. -- Sebastian Faulks
There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. -- Jim Webb
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. -- Bainbridge Colby
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. -- Vladimir Kramnik
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
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. -- Raymond Queneau
You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray. -- Sarah Hyland
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny. -- Steve Carell
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. -- Cassandra Clare
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character. -- J. C. Watts
People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. -- Tom Felton
For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do. -- Robert Griffin III
If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny. -- Eliza Coupe
Music is a defining element of character. -- Plato
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance. -- Unarine Ramaru

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