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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

  Quentin Crisp

  Lying, People, Good Man

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

  Colleen O'Connor

  Writing, Narrative, Messages

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• Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peers, Rotation, Paint

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• She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Cities, Looks

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• The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, Europe, Two

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• One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

  Trip Hawkins

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Believe

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• When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

  Muhammad Ali

  Home, Fighting, Doors

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.97, Graymalkin Media

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• Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Holiday, House, Apollo

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• I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

  Michael Palin

  Growing Up, Real, Style

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• The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

  Kirk Douglas

  Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Vision

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• I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

  Andy Rooney

  Summer, Children, Father

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• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

  Javier Bardem

  Kids, Speak English, America

  "Javier Bardem Comes Across" by Rene Rodriguez, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2000.

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• Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Devil, Pioneers

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• I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Keys, Fingers

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• Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.

  Rex Harrison

  Running, Teacher, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know the block was ill as a youngster
  Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster

  Nas

  Night, Body, Cop

  Song: One Mic, Album: From Illmatic To Stillmatic: The Remixes

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• When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Feelings, Stuff, Emotion

  Valerie Bertinelli (2008). “Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Writing, Decision

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• You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

  Gale Harold

  Creativity, Self, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Block out all the negative energy, and just love.

  Ariana Grande

  Energy, Negative, Negative Energy

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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from other great writers is great. You have to look for inspiration because sometimes music isn't the only thing that you can look at.

  Taylor Momsen

  Inspiration, Writing, Class

  www.seventeen.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

  Ann Coulter

  Independent, Years, Voting

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• An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Children, Boots

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.12, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m always writing, but there are times where I’m just not on my game, and I’ll use that time to read some new poets, go see some art, walk down to the river and just stare at it, or have a conversation with my sister, or whatever—do whatever it is that I do in my life, hoping that I’ll get filled up enough. And something will happen, some juggling will happen and boom.

  Dorianne Laux

  Art, Writing, Filled Up

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