Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been a partier.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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What is the world coming to?
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.
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New York has everything, so you can do anything.
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I overcame size with mechanics.
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Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
