Harold Bloom Quotes
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
Kate Williams
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
Larry Wilmore
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
Saint Augustine
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
Maisie Williams
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
Danai Gurira
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
Parker Stevenson
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
Zoe Wanamaker
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David
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If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.
F. B. Meyer
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
Parker Posey
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
R. Kelly
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
