"My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else."

-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Emotion Quotes

“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage
“When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories weâ€™ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.”
“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.”
“The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.30, Prometheus Books
“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.”

Source : "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.
“No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.”
“I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.”
“I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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