I don't think anyone would describe me as an understated advocate. Several people have told me my argument style is very direct and very blunt, which I find mystifying. How could you ever be anything but direct and blunt?
If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
I am a blunt person.
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.
I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.
That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.
In my films, I either want the music to be very subtle and very buried or just put it right out in front and be super blunt with it.
I think I'm very blunt and very honest.
I am very blunt, and people don't like it.
People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
I usually only get a blunt trim. No layers, nothing special, just the dead ends cut off very, very bluntly. For me, that feels safe and fashion at the same time.