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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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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If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a way that makes me ask questions and think about how I can relate myself to the characters and the issues that are there. But if it's just fluff, and everything is spelt out, I find it difficult to concentrate.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
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I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
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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.
