Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
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If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.
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A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
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Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
