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.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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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.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
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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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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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.

  

  Frances McDormand
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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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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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.

  

  Sam Worthington
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  • Work
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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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
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• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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  • Turn

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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  • Started
  • Getting

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

  

  Bam Margera
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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.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
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• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Look
  • Where

• Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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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.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • Love
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• We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.

  

  Pauline Matthews
  • Life
  • Live
  • Father

• Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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  • House

• My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Father

• Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Father
  • President
  • Lessons