The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.


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I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
CLAIRE BLOOM
I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
ORLANDO BLOOM
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic...
ORLANDO BLOOM
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian ...
HAROLD 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
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
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
HAROLD BLOOM
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
HAROLD 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
Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I nev...
ORLANDO BLOOM
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than ...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gas...
HOWARD BLOOM
We all have day jobs and fantasize about being rock stars and alt-country stars.
DAVE BLOOM
The people from church see us in a totally different environment. But I have to censor myself on the...
DAVE BLOOM
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proporti...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
ORLANDO BLOOM
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the thing...
AMY BLOOM
I think his modus operandi has evolved into, you can just try to do the best you can every single da...
LARRY BLOOM
I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very ...
RACHEL BLOOM
I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is ...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whol...
RON BLOOM
Obviously, this is a continuation of dollar woes.
DAVID BLOOM
I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone...
ORLANDO BLOOM
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre...
ALLAN BLOOM
It really isn't about winning the medal for me.
JEREMY BLOOM
I'll have a week to put the cleats on and get ready. Is a week enough? I don't see why not. I've bee...
JEREMY BLOOM
I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ...
JEREMY BLOOM
Well, this is America, so obviously football is the Big Daddy in this country. It gets the most atte...
JEREMY BLOOM
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
ORLANDO BLOOM
Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m...
ORLANDO BLOOM