Paul Bloom Quotes
I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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History can never be covered up.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.
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Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.
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When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.
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The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
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In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
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I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
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I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.
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I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
