Blaize Clement Quotes
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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Let's face it. I'm an open book.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
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I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.
