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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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"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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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."
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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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"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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"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
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"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
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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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"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
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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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"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."
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"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
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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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"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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"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."
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"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."
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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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"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."
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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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"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."
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"I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist."
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"I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist."
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"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."
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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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"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."
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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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"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
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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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"I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality."
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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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"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
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"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality."
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"Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans."
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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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"It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth."
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"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."
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