Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
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Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
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Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.
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In this book we turn to the study of new patterns of energy arising from man’s physical and psychic artifacts and social organizations. The only method for perceiving process and pattern is by inventory of effects obtained by the comparison and contrast of developing situations. (p. 8)
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A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
