Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

I do some eccentric dancing.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Man
  • Space
  • Nothing

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Justice
  • Studying

• Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Important
  • Know
  • Military

• I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Player
  • Hurt
  • Type

• I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Myself

• Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Money
  • Small

• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Background
  • Observer

• I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

  

  Lorde
  • Everything
  • I Love
  • Shopping

• I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

  

  K.K. Raghava
  • Life
  • Children
  • Inspiration

• Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Imagination
  • Race
  • Eccentric

• I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing... and not much singing.

  

  Satya Bhabha
  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Bollywood

• There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of the song. You basically want to create something that the fans relate to because it's exactly like them. So there's a lot of art that's made to be in the image of the audience, but then the audience is imitating this version of themselves. It's a really weird cultural feedback loop, and it's kind of strange to watch. It's a new thing since I was a kid, really a different thing.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Different
  • Art
  • Kids

• George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • Career
  • Played

• You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Enough

• I do some eccentric dancing.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Dancing
  • Eccentric