Harold Bloom Quotes
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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It is a lot of fun being in the Scissor Sisters.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.
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I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.
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I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
