Defending Your Character Quotes

#1. All of us have schnozzles ... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

Jimmy Durante

#2. I know I'll never trust a single thing you say
You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway
And all the lies have got you floating up above us all
But what goes up has got to fall

Linkin Park

#3. I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.

Dana Plato

#4. There's an art to life. Some people have talent for it. A boundless hope illuminates them. Where others are vague and tentative, they have only sharp, clear edges. Energy soars; lights burn brighter when they enter a room.

Kathleen Tessaro

#5. Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.

Kim Jee-woon

#6. Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

Ronald Reagan

#7. I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.

Tim Curry

#8. You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

Donald Miller

#9. I had a family that supported me.

Hillary Clinton

#10. As the political sky darkened, the court was lost in a last idyll of pleasure gardens, courtesans and mushairas, or poetic symposia, Sufi devotions and visits to pirs, as literary and religious ambition replaced the political variety.

William Dalrymple

#11. Entry is not equivalent to possession.

Stephen Fry

#12. To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work ... how about ... just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

Ed Begley Jr.

#13. Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

Rick Warren