Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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America is huge.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.
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You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.
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On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
