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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. -- Fiona Shaw
In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor. -- James Badge Dale
I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. -- Michael Aspel
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. -- Richard Powers
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. -- Brooke Shields
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. -- E. L. James
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. -- Ally Condie
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously. -- Joan Allen
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. -- Harry Reasoner
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. -- Leland Ryken
Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters. -- Dwayne Johnson
I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. -- Joe Williams
I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can't stick to one ensemble, I don't think I could stick to one tattoo. -- Dree Hemingway
As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances. -- James Badge Dale
People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves. -- Joan Cusack
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own. -- Mohnish Pabrai
I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives. -- Natalie Massenet
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done. -- Buck Owens
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. -- Aldous Huxley
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. -- Christina Ricci
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. -- Gary Gygax
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them. -- Steven Pinker
I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with. -- Chris Cornell
I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. -- Laura Hillenbrand
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously -- Elbert Hubbard
Drug dealers live vicariously through me -- Drake
You can live vicariously through the characters you play. -- Charlize Theron
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk. -- Kin Hubbard
I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married. -- Amy Dickinson
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better. -- Charlie Munger
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. -- Ashok Kallarakkal
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. -- Teresa Mummert
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously, -- Richard Power
It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning. -- John Neihardt
We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. -- Sarah Cross
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others -- Eric Berne
Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner. -- Ernie J Zelinski
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience -- Albert Bandura
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously. -- Joan Allen
We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts. -- Catherine Wilson
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I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story. -- Emmy Rossum
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved. -- Stephen Brookfield
He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo. -- John Fusco
Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously. -- Richard Hornby

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