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"Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
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"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."
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Personal Development
"Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow."
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"Your personal integrity, defined as being honest and having strong moral principles, communicates whether (or not) you can be trusted."
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"Failures make character, not success."
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"Words let you know what is in someone's mind, deeds let you know what is in someone's heart, and character lets you know what is in someone's soul."
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"The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters!"
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"Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."
Writing
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
Character
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
Now
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"I enjoy learning technical details."
Learning
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
Change
"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
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