Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
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No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes.
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There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
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Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving.
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In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.
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The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'
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Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.
