Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'
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If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.
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I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.
