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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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
