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A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

~Charles Dance

Topics: About Adaptation Any As Far As Bleak Character Concerned Did Far Features Find Had House Need Played Redeeming Television Try Whatsoever While

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

~Charles De Gaulle

Topics: Action Back Character Crisis Faced Falls He Himself His Makes Man Own Responsibility Stamp Takes

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I was born a character actor.

~Charles Durning

Topics: Actor Born Character Character Actor I Was Born

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

~Charles Eastman

Topics: Blood Character Clan Easy Family Friendship Held Loyal Own Test Think Veins Whose Your

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The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

~Charles Eastman

Topics: Always Awe Character Elements Fire Forces Frost Lightning Majestic Nature Powers Regarded Secondary Spiritual Water Were Wind

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When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.

~Charles Fleischer

Topics: Character Costume Get Go Just Location Made Movie Part Sense You Your

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When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.

~Charles Glover Barkla

Topics: Any Becomes Character Falling Kind Matter Primary Radiation Similar Source

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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

~Charles H. Townes

Topics: Character Enterprise Human Necessary Nobel Really Understood Very Well

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

~Charles Henry Parkhurst

Topics: Character Down Impulse Steady

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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Accepted Becomes Between Broken Character Divine Even Good Hardly He Him His Imagination Impression Lack Man Painful Unity Whole Words

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