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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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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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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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 haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have a great grandfather on my mother's side who was a musician, and I'd like to know more about his life.
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There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.
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I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.
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Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
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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.
