Block Quotes - Page 24

• Obviously, ["Fences"] is a character-driven piece in every sense of the word, and Denzel [Washington] knows the actor. He gave us two weeks of rehearsal. He is a truth teller, and he is a truth seer. So he knows when something is not going in the right direction, and he will call you on it. But, he knows the word to use to unlock whatever is blocking you. So I think he's fabulous and he's a teacher.

  Viola Davis

  Teacher, Character, Thinking

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• [Denzel Washington] was rustling with something and when he came back it was with a word about loving myself and the body that I'm in because I was still going on and on about the weight thing. I just liked that, because what people don't understand is that so much of what blocks us as actors is so personal.

  Viola Davis

  People, Actors, Weight

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.

  Denzel Washington

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

  Mac DeMarco

  Running, Guy, Albums

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, School, Ivory Tower

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Strong, Dark

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

  Jerry Garcia

  Reality, World, Walks

  Source: medium.com

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• When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

  Carrie Fisher

  Brother, Father, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Citizens, Jerusalem

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

  Paul Keating

  Land, Titles, Sitting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Just the thought of anybody saying that Obama was the one who divided us when the Republican leadership started out saying we're going to block everything he tries to do - and they were very successful at that, but they couldn't keep him from doing everything. So thank God for his hard work.

  Jolene Ivey

  Hard Work, Successful, Thank God

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

  Dick Gregory

  Men, Eight, Black

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the guy. So it is a monastic life, it is very lonely, if I was prone to loneliness. It's a lot like wrestling, no one can throw a block for you, no one can give you a pass. Nobody can hand the ball off to you, it's you only for an hour and a half every night.

  Jay Mohr

  Lonely, Loneliness, Wrestling

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  New York, Too Late, Pace

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

  David Brooks

  Smart, School, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

  Morgan Parker

  Creating, Noise, Sometimes

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Information, Enough

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, Cheer, War

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Cutting, Years, Two

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• The media is the great middleman. Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out. Trump's crowds are five blocks long.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Long, Needs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Everything [Ted] Cruz was doing was legal, it was aboveboard, but it was portrayed as Cruz is the villain, and here's [Donald] Trump and what he wants and will he get it? "Will he get to 1,237 before the convention? And if he doesn't, will they block him?"

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Villain, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

  Robin Leach

  Fall, Hard Work, Russia

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I got the nickname in the preseason of my rookie season. I was playing for the Suns at the (Great Western) Forum. I got a block or a steal or a dunk and (TNT broadcaster) Kenny Smith went crazy. He called me 'The Matrix.' Who wouldn't like it? Players go through their whole career without having a nickname.

  Shawn Marion

  Crazy, Player, Careers

  Source: www.nba.com

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• Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

  Stan Lee

  Directors, Want, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.

  Stephen Marche

  Father, Hands, Ties

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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