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• money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Winter, Long, Important

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• Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

  Djuna Barnes

  Thinking, Hair, Feelings

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.192, Courier Dover Publications

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Ideas, Panic, Way

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• God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.

  Jessie Sampter

  Running, Eye, Law

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• Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

  Andre Gide

  Remembered

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Paris, Glasses, Order

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I only get writer's block about once a day.

  Sue Grafton

  Writer's Block

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• I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Sheep, Yards, Sculpture

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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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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• Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Moving, Ice, Sea

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• Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

  Diane Dreher

  Winning, Victory, Each Day

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• This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

  John Henry Holland

  Use, Building, Models

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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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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• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  Barney Frank

  Gay, Bisexual, People

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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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• Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

  David Bayles

  Goal, May, Talent

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.27, Image Continuum Press

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• I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Process

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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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• This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Concern For Others, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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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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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Passion, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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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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• I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Film, Stay Focused, Wells

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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