Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.
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Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.
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It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
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You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
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So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
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We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
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Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.
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Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.
