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Quotes About Defining

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
~ Andie MacDowell
We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.
~ Jon Ronson
And this more human form of love (which will be performed in infinitely gentle and considerate fashion, true and clear in its creating of bonds and dissolving of them) will resemble the one we are struggling and toiling to prepare the way for, the love that consists in two solitudes protecting, defining and welcoming one another.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of "God versus the gods.
~ Walter Brueggemann
But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.
~ Darren Shan
I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.
~ Donna Tartt
It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.
~ Nina Gordon
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
~ Diane Wakoski
What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics
~ Anonymous
but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Ultimately, when two professionals meet, I don't really see the location as being a defining factor. If you're a psychologically weak fighter, maybe it would be. But if you're a seasoned pro, it doesn't really come into it.
~ Michael Bisping
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
~ Louis Untermeyer
The endgame of these sociopathic social engineers isn't non-binary sexuality. It is non-binary reality with them defining and profiting from it
~ Dean Cavanagh
Essentialism' denotes the view that members of a group share one or more defining characteristics which are innate and unalterable.
~ Ali Rattansi
There is nothing like young love. It is exciting, it is stimulating, and it is often the most complicated. Why? Because the two of you are still on a path of self-discovery, defining yourselves and trying to define a combined relationship at the same time.
~ Zane
I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.
~ Edgar Ramirez
Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
~ Debra Messing
Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.
~ Big Show
I really love customising certain songs for certain people. No matter what weight that comes with it - whether it comes with it not being a number one on the Top 100 or whatever. I'd rather write someone a career defining record.
~ The-Dream
But it did matter. He'd spent his entire life searching. He'd apprenticed to a dozen different professions. He'd fought in revolts, sailed two seas. All the while searching, searching for something he hadn't been able to define. He'd found it when he'd come to the Black Tower.
~ Robert Jordan
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
~ Bear Grylls
There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
~ Guillermo del Toro
There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
~ Stephen Daldry
Her family was at least as dysfunctional and peculiar as his own, riven with scenes that to other people might've been epoch defining—'it was a month before Daddy torched Mummy's portrait in the hall, and the paneling caught fire, and the fire brigade came, and we all had to be evacuated via the upstairs windows'—but to the Campbells were so normalized they seemed routine.
~ Robert Galbraith