Flaws Quotes - Page 28

• We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Mistake, Believe, Journey

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• I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

  Jeff Abbott

  Believe, Hero, Character

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• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

  Charlie Brooker

  Skills, Oxford, People

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• How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

  Rachel Cohn

  Princess, Causes, Downfall

  Rachel Cohn (2008). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

  Edward Felten

  Two, Not Good Enough, Three

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• Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

  Jeff Daniels

  Stars, Want

  "Jeff Daniels: Standing Next to the A-List". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

  Johnny Galecki

  Men, Bangs, Twenties

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• The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

  John Updike

  Book, Errors, Lasts

  John Updike (2013). “More Matter: Essays And Criticism”, p.866, Penguin UK

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• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Doe, Treasure

  'Christmas Eve' (1850) l. 1311

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• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, People, Political

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• There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.

  Tim Allen

  Country, Culture, Roles

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• Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.

  Daniel Dennett

  Eye, Intelligent, Historical

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• 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

  Character, Imperfection, Acting

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• You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough.

  J. Cole

  Perfect, Needs, Problem

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• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Kind, Posture

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• After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sick, Mind, Finishing

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• The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Beautiful, Science, Men

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• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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• It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Character, Adults, Character Flaws

  "Interview: Kenneth Lonergan on why ‘Margaret’ shouldn’t be perfect" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. July 10, 2012.

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• For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Humility, Pride

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

  Charles Gounod

  Thinking, Weakness, Looks

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• Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

  Aaron McGruder

  Ego, Speak, Shortcomings

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