' So I made a date with him, went over and talked to him about it, told him how I saw the picture being done and how I thought the Spock character was so important, and then he agreed to go on and do it.

NPR: A Robert Wise Reprise

There it was, all long and thin, and I thought, let me scan it and OCR (optical character recognition) it.

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Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools.

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Both tried to say general things about the character of human thought and experience without the distortions of misleading philosophy.

ECONOMIST: Jean-Paul Sartre

Instead, use the opportunity to demonstrate your thought process, to communicate your values and character, and to show the prospective employer how you perform under pressure.

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It means that you have to reach the end of your own speech very clearly, so that, in the great rush of words which make up a Shakespeare text, the next character can pick up the thought and run with it.

WSJ: Word Craft: Sir Antony Sher on Acting Shakespeare

So stop tapping out long texts, puzzling over how to fit a complex thought into a 140-character DM, and panicking when a friend you've just texted calls -- hitting "silence" and then later claiming you were in a library and couldn't pick up.

CNN: A call to pick up the phone

"I thought the guys played well and showed a lot of character, " said Lineen.

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Kritzer becomes more openly irritable as her character wearies of her mother's impaired thought processes and prickly barbs.

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And I thought it was important that the decent folk, simple folk be the heart of the story, and a character who is guileless, who isn't complicated in the sort of flawed way our Dark Knight is, and isn't political in any way.

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