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Personality Quotes
"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
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"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
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"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."
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"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."
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"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."
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"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."
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"Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative."
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"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
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"I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality."
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"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist."
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"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."
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"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."
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"I am a private person and that has always been my personality."
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"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."
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"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent."
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"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."
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"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
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"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."
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"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."
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"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."
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"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."
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"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
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"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."
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"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
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"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
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"When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown."
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"I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy."
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"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
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"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero."
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"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality."
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"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."
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"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block."
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"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."
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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
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"Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits."
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"There are differing opinions as to whether charisma and charm are innate qualities which we are born with or learned personality styles. I believe it is a combination of both. Young children demonstrate a propensity for this enthusiasm. However, smart adults realize that they can get further in life when they develop these special traits."
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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."
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