Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Craft

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Very
  • Starting
  • Union

• 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.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Doing
  • Directing
  • Producing

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Home
  • Society

• I always wanted to be an actor.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Always
  • Actor
  • Wanted

• You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Words
  • Eyes
  • Understanding

• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • God
  • Lost

• When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Why
  • Home
  • Kids

• I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • College
  • Basketball
  • Volleyball

• The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Birthday

• By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Book
  • Pigeons

• You'll see this term in your book, if you've read the book. Don't comment.

  

  Arthur Mattuck
  • Book
  • Term
  • Comment

• After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

  

  James Tobin
  • War
  • Learning

• Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Character
  • Book
  • Poignant