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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."
Mae West
"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 try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
Walt Disney
"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
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"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
Monica Seles
"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
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"I have an unfortunate personality."
Orson Welles
"I have an unfortunate 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."
Barbra Streisand
"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."
Bob Geldof
"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."
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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."
Dizzy Dean
"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."
Victor Garber
"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."
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"Personality is lower than partiality."
Goldwin Smith
"Personality is lower than partiality."
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"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
William Hazlitt
"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."
Jacques Derrida
"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 am a private person and that has always been my personality."
Grete Waitz
"I am a private person and that has always been my 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."
Christy Romano
"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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"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."
Alain de Botton
"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."
Earl Butz
"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."
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"I think I'm more European in personality."
Sally Kirkland
"I think I'm more European in personality."
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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."
Gabrielle Reece
"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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"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."
Germaine Greer
"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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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
Oscar Wilde
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."
Peabo Bryson
"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."
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"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
Hans Bender
"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."
Paul Getty
"I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist."
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"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."
Rachael Leigh Cook
"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."
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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."
Elvis Costello
"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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"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."
Thomas Hardy
"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."
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"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."
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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."
Tara Strong
"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."
Barbara Cartland
"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."
Will McDonough
"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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"Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits."
Donna Lynn Hope
"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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"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent."
Criss Jami
"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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"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
Kathy Acker
"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
Johnny Unitas
"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
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"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
C. S. Lewis
"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
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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."
Shirley Chisholm
"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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"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."
Joshua Lederberg
"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."
Julie London
"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality."
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"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
Sara Sheridan
"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."
Marcel Proust
"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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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
Rick Moody
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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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."
Susan C. Young
"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 and socialization aren't the same thing."
Steven Pinker
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
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"What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it."
Jack Lord
"What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it."
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"I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy."
Criss Jami
"I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy."
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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
Meryl Streep
"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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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."
Raymond Queneau
"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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"I am an addictive personality."
Trisha Goddard
"I am an addictive personality."
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"I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist."
Leif Garrett
"I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist."
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"I want to be an actress, not a personality."
Jill Clayburgh
"I want to be an actress, not a personality."
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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."
Al Gore
"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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