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You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton. -- Robin Wright
Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen. -- Charlie Day
Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. -- Dave Ramsey
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. -- Dalia Mogahed
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. -- Tobey Maguire
What I love about 'Breaking Bad' is the reflection of many people's - it's more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don't like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it's less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch. -- Giancarlo Esposito
1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits. -- Derwin L. Gray
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man. -- Maimonides
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. -- Alain de Botton
You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to. -- Joseph Morgan
The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv. -- Ed Helms
I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model. -- Jeremy Shockey
Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual -- David Shenk
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. -- Sam Savage
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change. -- Richard G. Scott
It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see. -- Neil Marshall
I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on. -- John McCain
There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it. -- Charlie Kaufman
The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way. -- Jerry Bridges
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you. -- Robert Greene
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs. -- Arthur Evans
What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits. -- Zelig Pliskin
Each character represented a trait that resides in me. -- Chuck Jones
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. -- David Seabury
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. -- Sigmund Freud
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about. -- Adam Beach
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. -- Octavio Paz
Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington. -- Shelley Moore Capito
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. -- Octavio Paz
I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie. -- Peter Dinklage
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them. -- Madonna Ciccone
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character. -- Jerry Bridges
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. -- Douglas Hyde
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. -- Lewis H. Lapham
We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books. -- Baltasar Gracian
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye. -- Nelson DeMille

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