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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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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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I don't have any skeletons in my closet.
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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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Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.
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Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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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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I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.
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Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
