Personality Briefs
The Goldfinch, named after the 1654 painting by Carel Fabritius of a chained goldfinch, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel by Donna Tartt and a book club favorite. This article provides a personality perspective that focuses on the relationship between two of the book’s main characters—Theodore “Theo” Decker, who tells the story in retrospective first-person narration, and his boyhood friend, Boris.
“My comedy is about telling the truth.” Joan Alexandra Molinsky, known as Joan Rivers, was an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and television host noted for her controversial comedic persona where she was alternately self-deprecating or sharply acerbic toward celebrities and politicians. Time Magazine called her “Stand-up Comedy’s Neglected Pioneer.” Her public persona certainly screamed puppy, […]
“Well, I don’t have much job security.” Bill Clinton, in 1992, on why he still plays the saxophone.
“For some she is a heroine and for others a reactionary tyrant. She will go down in history for good and bad reasons.”
Hoffman was known for approaching a new role like a detective seeking to unlock the secret of the character. He searched inside and outside of himself to learn about the character. He particularly loved the “introspection and self-evaluation” of acting.
“The Washington establishment fails Logic 101” –Arianna Huffington on how politicians and pundits who attribute changes in the Middle East to the American invasion are living in a fairy tale.
“I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.” –Barbara Walters
The story is about the possibility of love destiny—the notion that lovers are predetermined by destiny to be together. Of all the personality types, only the bleeding-hearted psychics are prone to believe in such things.
Eagle-eyed hippie children are notorious for giving their parents and teachers a hard time for not doing their homework and being noisy and restless in school. But what if the wild child is independently wealthy and beyond the control of his or her parents? Or what if the parents are just as wild as the child?
“President Roosevelt speaks as he writes, and what he writes no one can misunderstand.”