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Personality Quotes
"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 have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
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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'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."
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"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."
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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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"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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"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."
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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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"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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"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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"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."
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"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
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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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"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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"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
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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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"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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"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
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"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."
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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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"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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"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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"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's 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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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
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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'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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"Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic."
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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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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."
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