The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

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"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracian

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"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."

- Hachiman Hikigaya

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"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."

- Gintoki Sakata

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