Block Quotes - Page 20

• Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

  Nina Jacobson

  Games, Directors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.

  Ed Sullivan

  New York, Eight, Cities

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• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  Diane Ackerman

  Luxury, People, Deadline

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• I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Amber, Smooth

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• Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

  Behdad Sami

  Doe, Detours, Path

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Perfect, Want

  Interview with Richard Waters, www.ft.com. February 15, 2006.

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• What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

  Mother Teresa

  Rocks, Steps, Sometimes

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.113, New World Library

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• Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
  It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
  natural wisdom.

  Stephen Levine

  Addiction, Always Being Right, Kind

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.76, Anchor

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Party, Fighting

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.

  Lewis Black

  Eye, Thinking, Texas

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• I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

  Dane Cook

  Hate, White, Vision

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• I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

  Bret Michaels

  Kids, Phrases, Use

  "Bret Michaels Rocks From "Love" To "Life As I Know It"". Interview with Craig Marks, www.billboard.com. September 24, 2010.

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• My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Father, Men

  "Titus / Episode 27". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Judging others blocks me from inner peace

  Suki Waterhouse

  Judging, Inner Peace, Judging Others

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2014

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• Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?

  Troy Andrews

  Fun, Beer, New Orleans

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• Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.

  Robert Ashley

  Drama, Stupid, Thinking

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• I went through that stage every teenager goes through: Who am I? What am I? Where do I fit in? In my case I had to deal with newspapers saying I looked fat or tired or my hair was a mess. People always criticize: they either love you, or they don't. But you have to block that out and concentrate on the work. And I feel I am doing good work, and I'm finally getting to see who I really am.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Teenager, Love You, Tired

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• When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

  Ruskin Bond

  Writing, Paper, Waste

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

  Method Man

  Jobs, Real, World

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• A closed mouth gathers no foot.
  A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
  A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

  David Gries

  Tired, Thinking, Elephants

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• I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

  J. G. Ballard

  Strong, Careers, Ideas

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• Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Hands, Generations, Stories

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• I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

  Phil Daniels

  Kings, Dad, London

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• Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

  Brian Tracy

  Stumbling, Turns, Stumbling Blocks

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• The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

  Ronald Reagan

  Organization, Issues, Towns

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983”

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