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• If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Cutting, Ideas

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• Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.

  Bear Bryant

  Wrestling, Responsibility, Player

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• [To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road.

  Osborne Reynolds

  Science, Past, Progress

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• In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.

  William H. Macy

  Mistake, Want, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

  Che Guevara

  Stars, Night, Space

  Ernesto Guevara, Che Guevara (2004). “Self Portrait Che Guevara”, Ocean Press

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• It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

  Alex Delvecchio

  Hockey, Nhl, Toronto

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• The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Pain

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• As his campaign marches toward Cleveland, [Donald] Trump drawing more protests, too. Check out this scene from Arizona yesterday. The road to a Trump rally blocked. And there are new questions overnight about how Trump and his supporters are dealing with those protests.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Drawing, Yesterday, Arizona

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Art, Bad Day, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Ideas, President, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the terrorist regime in Haiti in the 1990s, the CIA, under the administration of Bill Clinton, was reporting to Congress that oil shipments had been blocked from entering Haiti. That was just a lie. I was there. You could see the oil terminals being built and the ships coming in.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Oil, Entering

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

  Robin Hobb

  Worry, Useless, May

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.367, Spectra

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• I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Running, Character, Play

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• Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal amnesty programs, including the 2014 amnesty which has been blocked by the United States Supreme Court. Great.

  Donald Trump

  United States, Amnesty, Clinton

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.

  Len Wiseman

  Character, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

  Byron Katie

  War, Mind, Way

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• This is my time, this is my hour,
  This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power.
  If it's my reign, then it's my shower,
  This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.

  Pusha T

  Pain, Rap, Names

  Song: King Push, Album: My Name Is My Name, 2013

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• When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

  Charles William Eliot

  Work, Heart, Progress

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• You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

  Rodney Harrison

  Team, Winning, Special

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• If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

  Jeff Buckley

  Silence, Enemy, Progress

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• It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

  Rodney Mullen

  Fall, Pride, Progress

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.

  Dave Koz

  Horse, Careers, Creative

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Mistake, Games

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