Paul Blackthorne quotes

“We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“It's not what happens in life, it's how you react to what happens in life.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“I just love going out and listening to people. People can teach us a lot.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“People concentrate, particularly for their own purposes, on dividing people, and it's just not necessary. If you actually spend time with somebody, in 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, and it's powerful when you do. When you find you've got something in common with somebody, all of a sudden, you're friends.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“There are so many issues that this country [the U.S.] has, and that the world faces, that it's important that we sit down and recognize our commonality. When we do that, we can actually work together to overcome some of the problems that we have. That, to me, is just a good starting place.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“Good drama is all about creating conflict.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.”
-- Paul Blackthorne

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“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.”

“We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster