#read

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#action hero #hero #i #me #play

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#criticism #every #i #i always #know

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concentrate #feel #i #individuals #intimately

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#come #criticism #even #fall #love

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#any #bear #dull #fully #fully alive

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cry #finest #full #hears #human

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#approach #been #father #feel #got

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour. ↗

— Fred Durst

#day #every #every single day #evolved #five

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#clash #content #into #our #own