Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
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Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
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I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
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I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
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Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
