Personality Quotes - Page 30

• Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Body, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

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• In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

  Claudio Hummes

  Rights, Support, Effort

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• If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Giving, Crowds, Might

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• It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Ideas, Diversity, People

  "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2008.

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• I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

  Josh Holloway

  Fun, Character, Cowboy

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• One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

  Rebecca Hall

  Black And White, Hollywood, Golden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

  Chanel Iman

  Black, Want, Iman

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• People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Running, Writing, People

  "Exclusive Interview with Bong Joon-ho" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Men, Names

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• I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Real, Character, Quality

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  Orlando Jones

  Years, Differences, Actors

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• I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

  John C. McGinley

  Sound, Red, Barbers

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• I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

  Marian Keyes

  House, Despair, Want

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• It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

  Adriana Lima

  Heart, Guy, Style

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• Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

  Mia Maestro

  School, Character, Trying

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• I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

  Peyton Manning

  People

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• In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Our Generation, Role Models, Generations

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• You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Men, Gone, Shapes

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Reading, Skills, Comedian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!

  Dylan O'Brien

  Girl, Fun, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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• You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

  Mark Pincus

  Sleep, People, Week

  "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

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• She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."

  Eleanor Brown

  Sister, Book, Thinking

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• Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Prayer, Unlimited

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1968). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: My religion. On life. Thoughts of God. On the meaning of life”

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