Personality Quotes — Page 45

Philosopher, Speaker

“What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.”

Teacher Personality Confusion

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Jo Brand

Comedian, Writer

“Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.”

Christian Personality Comedian

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Joe Murray

Artist, Illustrator

“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”

Personality Adopted

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

“It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.”

Father Personality Chinese

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Joseph Conrad

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality”

Self Secret Personality

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.”

Character Personality True Life

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.”

Men Personality Historical

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.”

Wind Personality Flames

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.”

Voice Personality Splendid

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.”

Years Personality Long Ago

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.”

People Different Personality

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.”

People Writing Personality

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