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• In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

  Richard Powers

  Writing, Years, Novel

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• Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Cutting, Russia, Curves

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

  Doug Collins

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

  Mary Garden

  Years, Long, Periods

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• One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.

  James Redfield

  Running, Teacher, Wall

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• There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.

  John Roberts

  Viruses, Different, Ongoing

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.

  John Trudell

  Wall, Stress, Believe

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

  Philippe Petit

  Air, Safety, Wire

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.

  Kristen Stewart

  Heart, Thinking, Ideas

  "Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you're already writing about what's going to happen to you, whether you know it or not. That's why I'm always surprised when people talk about writer's block. Because to me, it can't be stopped.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy, they're actually super technical, like, "Move your head, you're blocking her light," or, "Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her." You do it again and again because of the camera angles and takes and whatnot. So by the end of it, it's not even kissing. All the anything is totally drained out of it.

  Will Poulter

  Sexy, Moving, Kissing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Sweat, Two

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.

  Robin Tunney

  Thinking, Trying, Needs

  "SXSW Interview: Robin Tunney Talks ‘See Girl Run’, ‘The Mentalist’ and Playing a New Character". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

  Emily Yoffe

  Fall, Men, Email

  "Advice from Slate's 'Dear Prudence'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

  Suge Knight

  Song, Rapper, People

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

  Brandi Carlile

  Stress, Artist, Voice

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Men, Years

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• Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay. No, no, it is that kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up costing you.

  Jim Rohn

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

  Nelson Mandela

  Flower, Brutality, Bullets

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• Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

  Linda Hamilton

  Bad Day, Two, Sun

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• Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Technology, Apples

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• The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.

  Robert Conquest

  Country, Ideas, Effort

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• Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

  Joe Haldeman

  Worry, Dies, Writer's Block

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• Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.

  Steven Sample

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

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• Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

  Bill Moyers

  Long, Democracy, Auctions

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