Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.

- Kenneth Branagh

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

- Tony Gilroy

Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.

- Shamir

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

- Susan Cain

I love musicals - that's probably one of my most gay traits: that's one of my giveaways!

- Russell Tovey

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

- Robin Wright

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits.

- Robert Kiyosaki

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

- Peter R. Grant

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

- Madonna Ciccone

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

- Adam Beach

Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

- John Mott

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

- J. Philippe Rushton

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

- John Burroughs

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

- David Walliams

It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.

- Christopher Knight

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

- Craig Venter

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

- Bitsie Tulloch