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.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
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I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.
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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.
