Harold Bloom Quotes
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
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If this be a happy new year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important, then, to feel our dependence upon Him!
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Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
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Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
