Paul Bloom Quotes

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Paul Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeIdentityPeopleEnjoyYouTry

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

John Cho

LifeSonCultureParentsThought

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean Guitton

NumbersOthersIndividualOriginality

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.

Sue Hubbell

LiveBeautifulStepWorldLonely

The phenomenon that is 'Game Of Thrones' has propelled many actors associated with it into the minds of directors and producers, and it's a fabulous position to be in. It's because it's so adored and respected, of such high quality with such amazing cinematography.

Rose Leslie

QualityAmazingGameMindsHigh

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Michael Pollan

PovertyObesityBetweenAgricultural

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

Dolly Parton

CountryUpWhereLotGrew

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some 'Monty Python.'

Brent Sexton

WorkHomeMyselfDayEnergyGuitar

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!

Alison Weir

HistoryPeopleStoryFactsDownOut

There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking.

Timothy Spall

CharacterPlayTwoSameAlwaysJust

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

Richard Gere

GoodBestThinkMeanPartAny

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.

Marina Abramovic

LifeEnergyStrongerYouDownCry

I don't think villains think they are villains.

Martin Landau

ThinkVillains

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