Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
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Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
