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It's not a character flaw to become an adult. -- Kenneth Lonergan
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws. -- Marcia Gay Harden
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws. -- Jerry Falwell
Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw. -- James Redford
One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment. -- Wayde Goodall
My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much. -- Andy Rooney
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always. -- Richard Marcinko
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. -- Chuck Noll
A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. -- John R. Dallas Jr.
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. -- Harvey Mackay
We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws. -- Mardy Grothe
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z'ed up. -- John Green
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist. -- Eric Maisel
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. -- Timothy Keller
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. -- Mark Lawrence
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. -- Jonathan Maberry
My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me. -- David Foster Wallace
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
I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze. -- Roseanne Barr
Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children." -- Marni Jackson
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure. -- Mona Charen
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path. -- Pat Buchanan
I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure. -- Robert Webb
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life. -- Charles Stanley
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws. -- Harry Shearer
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. -- Michael Ian Black
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land. -- Barbara Holland
I love flawed female characters, duking it out. -- Lena Dunham
I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws. -- Sarah Shahi
I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect. -- Tom Berenger
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws. -- J. J. Abrams
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw. -- Mike Nichols
Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws. -- Joe Madureira
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. -- Emily Giffin
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do. -- Jenji Kohan
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. -- Nicolas Cage
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. -- Anne Enright
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope. -- Sara Zarr
I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides. -- Andy Serkis
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people. -- Rachel Weisz
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed. -- Danny Huston
I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. -- Ellen Pompeo
A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw. -- George Augustus Henry Sala
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong. -- David Adams Richards
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. -- Mike Rowe
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die. -- John Chancellor

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