#on

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#controlled #does #environment #i #make

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#approximately #book #first #i #second

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#because #behave #conceive #conversation #hard

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#amazing #awesome #being #being done #better

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#fascinated #i #i always #lot #mystique

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#because #being #both #congress #either

I'm not a negative person. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#negative #person

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#change #connected #continually #even #i

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#destroyed #habitat #honest #important #important things

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#american public #beyond #conversation #doubt #issue