Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
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What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.
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Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.
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I don't see myself as exotic.
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I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.
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I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all.
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In 'Guild Wars 2,' the dragons are the greatest threat, but there's so much more going on. It's a living world; it's a dynamic world. There are places where you find your piece of earth, and you can develop and play with it.
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There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.
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The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
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One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.
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When people do bad things intentionally, they know they've done them. But it's not to be cared about. That's the problem with the tabloid press; they dramatize these things until there's a state of frenzy. People see frenzy and they go, "What?" Then they clamor toward the frenzy. We all do it. It's a primal, natural response.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
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The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
