#person

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#asks #creates #empathy #eyes #fiction

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#become #bed #down #duration #life

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#any #booming #costs #county #crippling

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#behind #far #female #filmmakers #get

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#around #comedy #drama #feel #guy

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#big #corporation #corporations #person #talking

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#accurately #around #find #heck #ideas

I am a lucky, lucky person. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#i #i am #lucky #lucky person #person

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#away #car #care #driving #even

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona. ↗

— Phil Knight

#consider #enigmatic #i #lot #myself