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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.
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Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.
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Blogging requires consistency, and you need to have some time on your hands, which I don't really have.
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I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
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I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
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Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
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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.
