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• Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ultimate

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• I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Projects, Multiple, Writer's Block

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• We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

  Joey Harrington

  Optimistic, Thinking, Littles

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• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  Gareth Bale

  Team, Winning, Champions League

  "Real Madrid target Gareth Bale insists Spanish football is tops - and admits he'd like to play in La Liga" by Ben Curtis, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2, 2013.

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• Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Fashion, Character, Eye

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Book, Ivory

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.

  Anton Newcombe

  Country, Media, Berlin

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the structure that we raise,
  Time is with materials filled;
  Our to-days and yesterdays
  Are the blocks with which we build.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Yesterday, Structure

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

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• At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

  Karen Russell

  Beautiful, Names, Miami

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• There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Criminals, Nests, Littles

  Simon Wiesenthal (2008). “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”, p.95, Schocken

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• I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.

  Richard Carmona

  Morning, Sunday, Grandmother

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• So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Editing, Sound, Study

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Player, Tennis

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• But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

  Aeschylus

  Fate, Blow, Hammers

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.370

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• Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

  John Burdett

  Writing, Enemy, Novelists

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Cities, Long, Peers

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• The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

  Aesop Rock

  Magic, Gutters, Manipulate

  Song: Nickel Plated Pockets, Album: Daylight, 2002

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• While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Giving, May, Definitions

  Source: rzim.org

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• I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

  Marc Webb

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

  Eddie Izzard

  Drama, Believe, People

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

  William James

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Data

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
  and overrules the oncoming roar
  of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
  it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

  Denise Levertov

  Silence, Police, Vietnam

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Past, Men

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

  John Dos Passos

  Death, Time, Nails

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• There are knives that glitter like altars
  In a dark church
  Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
  To be healed.
  
  There's a woden block where bones are broken,
  Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed

  Charles Simic

  Dark, Knives, Rivers

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