I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.


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I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impa...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Something that is appealing to me about old Hollywood is job security.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I made short films in school.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Bro...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serio...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't wan...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS
I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE