Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.


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I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot...
ORLANDO BLOOM
I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can thi...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of...
PAUL BLOOM
My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And ...
RACHEL BLOOM
My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apo...
ORLANDO BLOOM
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening...
AMY BLOOM
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
ORLANDO BLOOM
How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded...
HOWARD BLOOM
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we d...
ORLANDO BLOOM
There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pre...
RACHEL BLOOM
New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and underst...
HOWARD BLOOM
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
ORLANDO BLOOM
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral age...
PAUL BLOOM
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic...
ORLANDO BLOOM
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and on...
AMY BLOOM
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the A...
AMY BLOOM
I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was r...
ORLANDO BLOOM
You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bu...
ORLANDO BLOOM
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I h...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sport...
PAUL BLOOM
The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the who...
RACHEL BLOOM
The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
RACHEL BLOOM
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
AMY BLOOM
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
AMY BLOOM
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult fi...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...
ALLAN BLOOM
Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple her...
ORLANDO BLOOM