Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
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I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
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I knew it was right to make time for myself to have adventures and fulfil dreams.
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
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I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just cherish them and try to make the most of them.
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Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
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Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
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When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
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Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
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I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.
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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
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There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass out CDs. So when an artist from Natchez or Gold Coast or Meridian breaks out, they already know exactly what kind of artist they want to be. The grind and the hustle is just so adamant.
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I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.
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Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
